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typeof

typeof

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

typeof expression

Parameters

expression A string, movie clip, button, object, or function.

Description

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, or function. The following table shows the results of the typeof operator on each type of expression:

Parameter	Output
String	string
MovieClip	movieclip
Button	object
Text field	object
Number	number
Boolean	boolean
Object	object
Function	function