<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div><span class="e" id="q_10e8a27550294ac6_1"><blockquote type="cite" cite="http://">
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On 10/27/06, <b>Etrade Griffiths</b>
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wrote: <br>
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<dd>Hi<br><br>
</dd><dd>I want to check the type of a variable so that I know which format to
use<br>
</dd><dd>for printing eg<br></dd></dl></blockquote></span></div></div></blockquote></div>Alternatively, you could just cast it as a string.