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Revision as of 13:52, 9 June 2009
Class
Expressions and Type Conversion
Purpose
Function to return a letter code that represents a data type
Syntax
TYPE(<expC>)
See Also
BIN2I(), BIN2L(), BIN2W(), CAST(), CTOD(), CTOT(), DTOC(), DTOM(), DTOS(), DTOV(), ERROR(), ERRNO(), ETOS(), I2BIN(), ISALPHA(), ISDIGIT(), L2BIN(), MESSAGE(), MTOS(), ON ERROR, STR(), STRZERO(), TTOC(), TTOD(), VAL(), VARTYPE(), VTOD()
Description
The TYPE() function returns a letter code which represents the data type of the expression in <expC>. The return value of the letter code is a character string from the table below.
| Data type | Return Value |
|---|---|
| ARRAY (STATIC) | A |
| ARRAY (DYNAMIC | O |
| BIGINT | N |
| BIT | L |
| BYTE | N |
| CHARACTER | C |
| CURRENCY | Y |
| DATE | D |
| DATETIME | T |
| DECIMAL | N |
| DOUBLE | N |
| FLOAT | N |
| GENERAL | G |
| INTEGER | N |
| LOGICAL | L |
| LONG VARCHAR | M |
| LONG VARBINARY | G |
| MEDIUMINT | N |
| MEMO | M |
| NUMERIC | N |
| OBJECT | O |
| PACKED | N |
| QUAD | N |
| REAL | N |
| SHORT | N |
| SMALLINT | N |
| Syntax error | U |
| TEXT | M |
| TIME | C |
| TIMESTAMP | T |
| TINYINT | N |
| Undefined | U |
| VAXDATE | C |
| VARCHAR | C |
| ZONED NUMERIC | C |
If <expC> contains a syntax error, or an undeclared variable, then TYPE() returns 'U'. TYPE() will also return a 'U' for an undefined variable if SET CLIPPER is ON. TYPE() is primarily used to check for the existence of a variable, or the syntax of an expression.
Example
i = 10 ? type("i") N
Products
Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer
