From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2004-01-29T05:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Type

In article <cee6b908.0401281235.5d7f1ea8@posting.google.com>,
Noixe <Noixe@email.it> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm italian, then sorry in advance for my bad english:
>
>Is there a method to know a type of object?
>
>For example:
>
>x = 1
>y = [1, 2, 3]
>z = {1 => "one", 2 => "two"}
>
>
>puts x.type # Must print "int"
>puts x.type # Must print "array"
>puts x.type # Must print "hash"

you can call class e.g.

[mike@ratdog mike]$ irb
>> x = 1
=> 1
>> y = [1, 2, 3]
=> [1, 2, 3]
>> z = {1 => "one", 2 => "two"}
=> {1=>"one", 2=>"two"}
>> x.class
=> Fixnum
>> y.class
=> Array
>> z.class
=> Hash

Hope this helps,

Mike

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