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Foil 17 Determining and Testing Class of Object
From
Java Tutorial 98- 4: Multi-Treading, Useful Java Classes, I/O and Networking NAVO Tutorial --
Sept 23 1998
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by
Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
Suppose we have an object called obj. We get the class of obj by:
Class class = obj.getClass();
and its name by:
String name = class.getName();
One can also use instanceof in following fashion:
"foo" instanceof String
evaluates to true, but
( new mPoint(x,y) ) instanceof String
evaluates to false.
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