Variables' storage type

[Giovanni Di Prete]

Dear all,

I am new in this community, thus I apologize in advance in case of off-topic.
I am wondering whether there exists a function whose output is the storage type of a variable. If this is not the case, I would appreciate suggestion on how discriminate variables on this basis (storage type).

Many thanks,

John

[Erika Kociolek]

You can use the command confirm to determine if a variable is of a certain type, i.e. string, numeric, etc. Is that what you're looking for?

[Nick Cox]

"John ThePriest" You are asked to use full real names here. If you don't want to, there are many forums without such a request.

ds is a command that might help.

[Giovanni Di Prete]

Thanks a lot everybody. Didn't know about the name thing, I'll change it immediately. sorry about that

[Alan Neustadtl]

How about:

sysuse auto, clear

loc type : type mpg
di "`type'"

loc type : type make
di "`type'"

loc type : type foreign
di "`type'"

Which results in:

. loc type : type mpg

. di "`type'"
int

. 
. loc type : type make

. di "`type'"
str18

. 
. loc type : type foreign

. di "`type'"
byte

Best,
Alan