getvaluetype

Purpose

Query the type of the value(s) that can be stored in an entity

Synopsis

function xreflect~getvaluetype(entityname:string):string

Argument

entityname

The name of the public entity to query

Return value

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

XREFLECT_TYP_BOOL	boolean value
XREFLECT_TYP_INT	integer value
XREFLECT_TYP_REAL	real value
XREFLECT_TYP_STRING	string value
XREFLECT_TYP_UNSUPPORTED	a value 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=',getvaluetype('myvar'))
writeln('myarr=',getvaluetype('myarr'))

produces this output:

myvar=string
myarr=real

Further information

1. The value type of an entity is the type of the values it can contain. For example, the value type of an array of integer is XREFLECT_TYP_INT.

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

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