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o basetype(foo) Returns a string with the basic type of foo as opposed to typeof(foo) that returns the actual type. Also available as sprintf("%t", foo).

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/ Peter Bortas

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2002-11-28 20:36: Subject: CHANGES line of the day

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Actually sprintf("%t",x) gets converted to basetype(x) internally as an optimization, if anyone cared to know. The comparision to typeof isn't all that good, since basetype returns a string while typeof returns a type.

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constant tre = typeof(3); tre fyra=4;

Compiler Error: 1:Bad type in assignment. Compiler Error: 1:Expected: { tre = int(3..3) } Compiler Error: 1:Got : int(4..4)

/ Martin Nilsson (hehe Torgny)