Yes, sorry, my example should have been In [17]: x = 1
Out [17]: 1 In [18]: typeof(x) <: Real Out [18]: true On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, j verzani <[email protected]> wrote: > try `isa(x, Type)` > > > On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:44:55 PM UTC-4, K leo wrote: >> >> Use to determine something read in from a file. >> >> On 03/24/2014 09:30 AM, Collin Glass wrote: >> > Hmm.. What's your use case? I mean you could just whip up a quick >> > function isnum that returns true if typeof is any of the collection of >> > formats. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:20:51 PM UTC-4, K leo 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. >> > >> >>
