Find whether the type of a variable is string

is_string

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

is_stringFind whether the type of a variable is string

Description

bool is_string ( mixed $var )

Finds whether the type given variable is string.

Parameters

var

The variable being evaluated.

Return Values

Returns TRUE if var is of type string, FALSE otherwise.

Examples

Example #1 is_string() example

<?php
$values 
= array(falsetruenull'abc''23'23'23.5'23.5''' ''0'0);
foreach (
$values as $value) {
    echo 
"is_string(";
    
var_export($value);
    echo 
") = ";
    echo 
var_dump(is_string($value));
}
?>

The above example will output:

is_string(false) = bool(false)
is_string(true) = bool(false)
is_string(NULL) = bool(false)
is_string('abc') = bool(true)
is_string('23') = bool(true)
is_string(23) = bool(false)
is_string('23.5') = bool(true)
is_string(23.5) = bool(false)
is_string('') = bool(true)
is_string(' ') = bool(true)
is_string('0') = bool(true)
is_string(0) = bool(false)

See Also

  • is_float() - Finds whether the type of a variable is float
  • is_int() - Find whether the type of a variable is integer
  • is_bool() - Finds out whether a variable is a boolean
  • is_object() - Finds whether a variable is an object
  • is_array() - Finds whether a variable is an array


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