Check out issubtype: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#Base.issubtype And the corresponding operator (since it's use so much):
x = 1 x <: Real true On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:20 PM, cnbiz850 <[email protected]> wrote: > typeof(var) gives something too specific, like Int16, Float32, etc. Is > there a convenient way to determine if var is a number or something else > (string)? I tried isreal(var), but it gives an error in case var is not a > number. > >
