VBS TUTORIAL: function-typename function _vbs

TypeName function

Returns a string that provides variant subtype information about a variable.

TypeName(varname)

The varname parameter of the required option, which can be any variable.

return value

The TypeName function returns the following values:

value	Description
Byte	BYTE value
Integer	Integer value
Long	Long-integer value
Single	Single-precision floating-point values
Double	Double-precision floating-point value
Currency	Currency value
Decimal	Decimal value
Date	Date or time value
String	String value
Boolean	Boolean value;True or False
Empty	Not initialized
Null	No valid data
<object type>	Actual object type name
Object	General objects
Unknown	Unknown object type
Nothing	Object variables that have not yet referenced object instances
Error	Error

Description

The following example uses the TypeName function to return variable information:

Dim ArrayVar(4), MyTypeNullVar = Null    Assigned  value. TypeName("VBScript") ' return  "String" . TypeName(4) ' return  "Integer" . TypeName(37.50) ' return  "Double" . TypeName(NullVar) ' return  "Null" . TypeName(ArrayVar) ' return  "Variant()" .