Type detection

Type detection is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

This draft task needs a purpose, a description and some way to tell whether examples satisfy or do not satisfy it.

JavaScript

[1]

console.log(typeof('foo')); // Returns string
console.log(typeof(12345)); // Returns number

PHP

[2]

echo gettype('foo'); // Returns string
echo gettype(12345); // Returns integer

Specific tester functions

• is_array()