Re: [Gretl-users] type of variable

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Pedro Bação wrote: Hello, > Is there a Gretl function will that tell us what is the type of the > variable given as argument? If not, is there a way of getting that sort of > information in Gretl? > In fact there is such a function, but for some reason it has never been documented -- I'm in the process of amending that. The function is named "typeof": it takes a putative identifier as argument and returns a numeric code, as described in the help for the "inbundle" function. To illustrate: <hansl> open data4-1 matrix m eval typeof(sqft) eval typeof(m) eval typestr(typeof(m)) eval typeof(nothing) </hansl> This gives the output 2 3 matrix 0 Having this function makes the (documented) "exists" function somewhat redundant. In fact, internally I'm making "exists" into an alias for "typeof". Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users