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Foil 17 Determining and Testing Class of Object

From Java Tutorial, July 1, 1996 CEWES Tutorial, CPS606, JSU Class CSC499 -- July 22-25 1997, Fall 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo
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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