getstructtype

Purpose

Query the structural type of an entity

Synopsis

function xreflect~getstructtype(entityname:string):string

Argument

entityname

The name of the public entity to query

Return value

The structure type, equal to one of the following constants:

XREFLECT_STR_ARR	array
XREFLECT_STR_CONST	scalar constant
XREFLECT_STR_REF	scalar variable
XREFLECT_STR_SET	set
XREFLECT_STR_UNSUPPORTED	a structural type not supported by xreflect
XREFLECT_NOT_FOUND	entityname was not found in the dictionary

Example

The following:

public declarations
  myvar: string,
  myarr: array(range) of real
end-declarations
writeln('myvar=',getstructtype('myvar'))
writeln('myarr=',getstructtype('myarr'))

produces this output:

myvar=variable
myarr=array

Further information

1. The structural type of an entity defines how it structure(s) the values it stores. For example, the structural type of an array of integer is XREFLECT_STR_ARR.

2. If the specified entity name cannot be found, the function will return XREFLECT_NOT_FOUND.

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