TYPE()
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Purpose
Function to return a letter code that represents a data type
Syntax
TYPE(<expC>)
See Also
ATOH(), BIN2I(), BIN2L(), BIN2W(), CAST(), CTOD(), CTOT(), DTOC(), DTOM(), DTOS(), DTOV(), ERROR(), ERRNO(), ETOS(), HTOA(), I2BIN(), ISALPHA(), ISDIGIT(), L2BIN(), MESSAGE(), MTOS(), SET JSONBOOLEAN, STR(), STRZERO(), TTOC(), TTOD(), TYPEOF(), VAL(), VARTYPE(), VTOD()
Description
The TYPE() function returns a letter code which represents the data type of the expression in <expC>. The return value of the letter code is a character string from the table below.
| Data type | Return Value |
|---|---|
| ARRAY (STATIC) | A |
| ARRAY (DYNAMIC) | O |
| BIGINT | N |
| BIT | L |
| BYTE | N |
| CHARACTER | C |
| CURRENCY | Y |
| DATE | D |
| DATETIME | T |
| DECIMAL | N |
| DOUBLE | N |
| FLOAT | N |
| GENERAL | G |
| INTEGER | N |
| LOGICAL | L |
| LONG VARCHAR | M |
| LONG VARBINARY | G |
| MEDIUMINT | N |
| MEMO | M |
| NUMERIC | N |
| OBJECT | O |
| PACKED | N |
| QUAD | N |
| REAL | N |
| SHORT | N |
| SMALLINT | N |
| Syntax error | U |
| TEXT | M |
| TIME | C |
| TIMESTAMP | T |
| TINYINT | N |
| Undefined | U |
| VAXDATE | C |
| VARCHAR | C |
| ZONED NUMERIC | C |
Example
i = 10 ? type("i") N
