PHP, at least php 3.x, has a series of fuctions like
is_string, is_integer, is_array etc.  I know they're
there...I don't us them so I don't know exactly
where...this might be what you're looking for...

rm

--- phpman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello all,
> 
>  let's say i have this:
> $a="varone=hello world|vartwo=2.44|varthree=100|";
> 
> now i do this:
> 
> $b=explode('|',$a);
> $z=count($b);
> for ($x=0;$x<$z;$x++) {
>     $tmp=explode('=',$b[$x]);
> ....
> 
> and i want to find out if  $tmp[1] is a string or an
> integer (that's really
> all I need to determine so i can put
> together an SQL statement that puts single quotes
> around strings and none
> around integers). Obviously
> i won't know at design time all of the variables and
> their values. Thank
> you.
> 
> -dave
> 
> 
> 
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