Flash Player 5.
typeof
(expression)
expression
A string, movie clip, button, object, or function.
Operator; a unary operator placed before a single parameter. The typeof
operator causes the Flash interpreter to evaluate expression
; the result is a string specifying whether the expression is a string, movie clip, object, function, number, or Boolean value. The following table shows the results of the typeof
operator on each type of expression:
Parameter | Output |
String | string |
Movie clip | movieclip |
Button | object |
Text field | object |
Number | number |
Boolean | boolean |
Object | object |
Function | function |