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typeof()

Hello:

I want to know if somo variable is integer, real or string but typeof
returns Int16, Int32, etc, because of that my if() statement has to compare
if X is Int32 or Int64 or ...

Any idea how to reduce the if statement?

thanks
Nov 15 '05 #1
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rua17 <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote:
I want to know if somo variable is integer, real or string but typeof
returns Int16, Int32, etc, because of that my if() statement has to compare
if X is Int32 or Int64 or ...

Any idea how to reduce the if statement?


Well, you could have two collections (eg Hashtables), one containing
the types of Int32, Int64, UInt32 etc, another containing the types of
Single and Double, and then just a test for string...

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
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Nov 15 '05 #2
Use the "is" keyword.

You can do something like:

if (23 is int)
{
// Do your stuff
}

-vJ

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Hello:

I want to know if somo variable is integer, real or string but typeof
returns Int16, Int32, etc, because of that my if() statement has to compare if X is Int32 or Int64 or ...

Any idea how to reduce the if statement?

thanks

Nov 15 '05 #3
Thanks
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.com> wrote in message
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rua17 <ru***@hotmail.com> wrote:
I want to know if somo variable is integer, real or string but typeof
returns Int16, Int32, etc, because of that my if() statement has to compare if X is Int32 or Int64 or ...

Any idea how to reduce the if statement?


Well, you could have two collections (eg Hashtables), one containing
the types of Int32, Int64, UInt32 etc, another containing the types of
Single and Double, and then just a test for string...

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

Nov 15 '05 #4
The easiest way to do this is

if (obj is string)
{

}
else if (obj is float || obj is double)
{

}
else if (obj is int || obj is uint || obj is short || obj is ushort ||
obj is long || obj is ulong || obj is byte || obj is sbyte)
{

}
else
{
// Unexpected Type
}

The previous code is preferable, but you can still use if statement with
typeof, by comparing Type objects:

if (obj == null)
{
// Unexpected value

}
if (obj.GetType() ==
typeof(string))
{

}
else if (obj.GetType() == typeof(float) || obj.GetType() ==
typeof(double))
{

}
else if (/*check for integral types in the same way*/)
{

}
else
{
// Unexpected Type
}

Please let me know if you need more clarification

Karim Elias
C# Compiler QA
Microsoft

Nov 15 '05 #5

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