ListGetType

Queries the manner in which a variable of type list was created.

Prototype

	function ListGetType (
		f [1] : list   
	)

	return_val [2] :  string

Arguments

Variable of type list as created by the addfiles function.

Return value

Returns a variable of length 2 and of type string.

Description

The first element specifies "join" or "cat". The second element specifies "fifo" (first-in/first-out, the default) or "lifo" (last-in/first-out) which describes manner in which the files are accessed.

See Also

ListAppend, ListCount, ListGetType, ListIndex, ListIndexFromName, ListPop, ListPush, ListSetType, NewList

Examples

Example 1

Let "fils" be a one-dimensional array of strings containing the full or relative path of the data files to be referenced. The file(s) pointed to by the file_path string must be a supported file format.

   f    = addfiles (fils, "r")  

   ListSetType (f, "cat")     ; concatenate (=default)
      .
      .
      .
   strList = ListGetType (f) 
   print(strList)

Variable: strList
Type: string
Total Size: 16 bytes
            2 values
Number of Dimensions: 1
Dimensions and sizes:   [2]
Coordinates: 
(0)     cat
(1)     fifo