[Gambas-user] Answer to: "Way to tell if an object is a struct"

[Brian G]

Yes but this does not differentiate a structure from a normal object
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Thanks
Brian G Wednesday, 05 April 2023, 02:22PM -07:00 from Jussi Lahtinen  jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com :

>There is already TypeOf() function. And you can get the class with Object.Type().
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>Jussi
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>On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 7:05PM vuott--- via User < user at lists.gambas-basic.org> wrote:
>>On this thread
>>    https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2023-March/078862.html
>>Brian G asked, if it were possible to know if an Object is a Structure.
>>In Gambas source file 
>>   /home/[USER]/gambasdevel/main/share/gambas.h
>>the numbers of datatypes identifiers are listed.
>>Therefore, by knowing which number a declared variable belongs to, it is possible to know its data type.
>>I found a way to know, from the memory address of the variable it is necessary to go back 8 units. Deferencing the Pointer will give the identifier number of the data type of the variable, which consequently will have to be compared with the list above.
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>>This is my simply code:
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>>[code]
>>Public Struct Struttura
>>  b As Byte
>>  c As Short
>>End Struct
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>>Private id As Struct Struttura
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>>Public Sub Main()
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>>Dim p As Pointer
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>>p = VarPtr(id)
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>>Print "Gambas datatype identifier: "; Byte@(p - 8)
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>>End
>>[/code]
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>>It should be noted that in the list of data-type identifier numbers, in particular, the data type Structure is NOT present.
>>It will be located and reported by my code as an "Object" (number: 16)
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