variable type

Question

I thought I saw the other day someone do something like

<cfif VariableType( myVariable ) EQ "struct"> do
this...

where VariableType was some CFML function call. I was looking
for something else at the time and didn't note the post.

I know I can do isStruct( myVariable ), isArray, isObject,
etc. Is there a single function call that returns the type so I can
just use a switch on the returned value?

Newsgroup_User · Answer

> <cfif VariableType( myVariable ) EQ "struct"> do this...
>
> where VariableType was some CFML function call. I was looking for something
> else at the time and didn't note the post.

Well there's myVariable.getClass(), which kind of does what you want. It's
Java, not CF, and will return the underlying Java class of the variable.

However as Dan points out, you might get "inaccurate" results, as CF is
fairly inaccurate with how it types variables in the first place.

--
Adam

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