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Foil 14 Determining and Testing Class of Object

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 4: Multithreading, useful Java classes, I/O, Networking, and the future Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Suppose an object is called obj , then we get Class of obj by
2 Class itsclass = obj.getClass(); // and the name of this class by:
3 String name = itsclass.getName();
4 One can also use instanceof in following fashion
5 "foo" instanceof String // is evaluated to true but
6 mPoint pt = new mPoint(x,y);
7 pt instanceof String // is evaluated to false
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