php.js : is_string() function

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is_string() function

The is_string() function is used to check whether a variable is a string or not. The function returns true if the variable is a unicode or binary string, otherwise false.

Version:

1103.1210

Syntax:

is_string (var_name)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
var_name	The variable being checked	Required	Mixed*

*Mixed : Mixed indicates that a parameter may accept multiple (but not necessarily all) types.

Example of php.js is_string() function

In the following web document is_string() function check whether a variable is a string or not.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : is_string() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/variable/variable.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : is_string() function example</h1>
<h3>Check whether a variable is a Unicode or binary string.</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
document.write('is_string("sadfsd")'+'<br>');
var_dump(is_string("sadfsd"));
document.write('<br>'+'is_string(-56.66)'+'<br>');
var_dump(is_string(-56.66));
document.write('<br>'+'is_string("abc587")'+'<br>');
var_dump(is_string("abc587"));
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the function:

is_string("sadfsd")
bool(true)
is_string(-56.66)
bool(false)
is_string("abc587")
bool(true)

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