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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) Programming AJAX Parsing JSON Data

Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
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Posted by Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
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What is this javascript thing typeof?

I've never seen such a thing before where you put

typeof variable

and it returns the type of the variable. It's just weird to me that it's not a function or a method.

2 Answers

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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typeof returns the type value the variable is declared as...

It either returns "String" if the variable is a string and so on.

Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
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Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points

I just looked it up. Apparently it's an operator: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_typeof.asp