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Foil 74 Determining and Testing Class of Object

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by 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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