type

 

 

Overview

The type function returns the type symbol for the specified argument.

Usage

The type function is used to query an object for its type.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(type obj)

Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:objCharacter, String, Symbol, Vector, Brick, BitVector, ByteVector, IntVector, Lambda ShortVector, FltVector, ObjVector, Structure, Dictionary, Directory, Pair, List, Function, ObjectRepository Matrix, NumMatrix, Integer, Float, Number, Complex, Void, Boolean, Date Any Analytic Information Server object.

Returns:

The symbolic type for the object


 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Character String Symbol Vector
BitVector ByteVector IntVectorLambda FltVector
ShortVector ObjVector Structure Dictionary
Directory Pair List BooleanObjectRepository
Matrix NumMatrix Integer Float
Number Complex Brick Void
Date Function

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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append apply argument arithmetic
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bitwiseOr bitwiseShiftLeft bitwiseShiftRight bitwiseXor
bmod bmul boolean c::r
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ccompareGE ccompareGT ccompareLE ccompareLT
ccompareNE cdiv cdr char
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compareNE compare comparison compile
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copy cos cosh count
csub date day days360
debugBrowsableProcs debugDetective debugEval debug
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defineStructure define defmacro defmethod
deforphan defriend defstruct defun
deg deleteRows delete dimension
disassemble display divi downcase
encode evalInSyncLocalContext eval exit
exp exportCsv exportSbf exportTab
expt fact fdisplay fieldsOf
fileClose fileCopy fileDir fileDisplay
fileEraseDir fileErase fileExists fileMakeDir
fileOpen fileReadAll fileReadRecord fileRead
fileResize fileSeek fileSizeOf fileWriteAll
fileWrite filewriteln findBlock find
floor fraction freeBlock gc
gcd getGlobalValue getRecursionCount getSymbolTable
getTickCount globalBinding hashString hour
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icompareLE icompareLT icompareNE idiv
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importTab imul insertRows insert
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isBitVector isBoolean isBound isByteVector
isCharAlphabetic isCharAlphanumeric isCharLowercase isCharName
isCharNumeric isCharUppercase isCharWhitespace isChar
isCharacter isClass isComplex isDate
isDictionary isDirectory isEqual isError
isEven isExact isFloatVector isIdentical
isInexact isInside isIntegerVector isInteger
isLambda isMatrix isMember isMoney
isNegative isNull isNumberMatrix isNumberVector
isNumber isObjectVector isObject isOdd
isPair isPcodeVector isPositive isString
isStructure isSymbol isText isType
isVector isZero isub julian
kurtosis last lcm left
length lisp list loadModule
loadObject loadRepository loadWorkspace lock
log10 log2 log logbase
macroReplace makeDictionary makeGaussianMatrix makeGramMatrix
makeQuotedList makeQuotedSymbol makeStructure map
mapc matrixGaussianEliminate matrixGaussianSubstitute max
median member methodsOf mid
min minute mod modi
money month morph muli
nadd ncompareEQ ncompareGE ncompareGT
ncompareLE ncompareLT ncompareNE ndiv
new nmod nmul now
nsub number objectToDictionary objectToDirectory
objectToList objectToMatrix objectToNumMatrix objectToNumVector
objectToStructure objectToVector offset openLog
pair parent parse pi
pointer preAllocateFixedMemoryBlocks product proplist
proprecord putprop qt quote
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rank real refAttributes refValues
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replace rept resize reverse
right round run saveImmediate
saveModule saveObject saveRepository saveWorkspace
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setCar setCdr setLastCdr set
setf setq sigmoid sign
sin sinh sizeof skew
sleep sort sql sqrt
srandom stdev stdevp stringCiEQ
stringCiGE stringCiGT stringCiLE stringCiLT
stringCiNE stringFill stringToBVector stringToVector
string sub1 subi submit
substitute substringCiEQ substringCiGE substringCiGT
substringCiLE substringCiLT substringCiNE substringEQ
substringFill substringGE substringGT substringLE
substringLT substringNE substring sum
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