Determining a variable type...

Hi, i was wondering if there was a way to determine the variable type of a number taken from a user input. For example:

Code:

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if(input == float)
{
    Do something;
}
else if(input == short || int || long)
{
    Do something else;
}

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This is just for general knowledge so i don't have any real exmaple to give, but that's the basic idea.

Thanks.

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Hi, i was wondering if there was a way to determine the variable type of a number taken from a user input. For example:

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Yes and no. No, not in the way you're trying. Yes, you could if you read into a buffer first and then stick it in the smallest compatible data type.

You could also use sscanf() to stick it into various variables and see how that works.

Quzah.

what are you checking? for a varible to exist you must have declared it so you should know its type, the only way you could check 'incode' would be to check it's size, however some ints are the same size. If your talking about parsing a string then you will have to check each character individually to determine what you have.
Does that help? No I thought not.

You could read it as a string, then check what kind of input it could be.

ie:
Just digits (0-9): Integer
Digits and one . (dot): Float
One digit/character: Char