Re: testing for uint8: a solution

[Bill Denney]

> I found the following solution for testing whether a variable is uint8 
> (a question I had asked some time ago).  Is there anything wrong with 
> using this solution?

A simpler test is

octave:1> a = uint8(1)
a = 1
octave:2> class(a)
ans = uint8
octave:3> strcmpi(class(a), 'uint8')
ans = 1

> int is_uint8(const octave_value &val) {
>
>  if ((val.type_id() == octave_uint8_matrix::static_type_id()) ||
>      (val.type_id () == octave_uint8_scalar::static_type_id())) {
>    return(1);
>  } else {
>    return(0);
>  }
>
> }

Another thing to note, if you decide to keep this function, to be 
consistent, it should be "isuint8" instead of "is_uint8".  (I don't know 
about the actual validity of the function though.)

Bill

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