typeid

Since	20.0

int  typeid(<type>value)

int  typeid(<type>value[])

Returns a numeric code identifying the value’s type.

int  typeid(dict dictionary, string key)

Returns a numeric code identifying the type of the key’s value in the dictionary, or -1 if the key does not exist. This can be compared against the typeid() of a specific VEX data type.

Examples

examples

// Check if the value for "foo" is a matrix.
int type = typeid(d, "foo");
if (type == typeid(matrix())
{
    matrix m = d["foo"];
}