Re: type?

[ToddAndMargo via perl6-users]

On 2020-01-08 23:06, WFB wrote:

Hi Todd,

dd or .WHAT will give you that information.

dd $i;
say $i.WHAT;

Greetings

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 03:58, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:

    Hi All,

          Is there a way to ask a variable what "type" it is?

    Many thanks,
    -T

Hi W,

Sweet.  Thank you!

> my $i="abcd"; say $i.WHAT
(Str)

> my $i="abcd"; if $i.WHAT.gist eq Q[(Str)]  {say "String";}
String

Any way to get WHAT to tell me specifically that it
is an int32?

> my int32 $j=0x45; say $j.WHAT
(Int)


-T