get type of NSNumber

Question

I want to get the type of NSNumber instance.

I found out on http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSNumber this:

 NSNumber *myNum = [[NSNumber alloc] initWithB         


        

Answer 1

You can get the type this way, no string comparisons needed:

CFNumberType numberType = CFNumberGetType((CFNumberRef)someNSNumber);

numberType will then be one of:

enum CFNumberType {
   kCFNumberSInt8Type = 1,
   kCFNumberSInt16Type = 2,
   kCFNumberSInt32Type = 3,
   kCFNumberSInt64Type = 4,
   kCFNumberFloat32Type = 5,
   kCFNumberFloat64Type = 6,
   kCFNumberCharType = 7,
   kCFNumberShortType = 8,
   kCFNumberIntType = 9,
   kCFNumberLongType = 10,
   kCFNumberLongLongType = 11,
   kCFNumberFloatType = 12,
   kCFNumberDoubleType = 13,
   kCFNumberCFIndexType = 14,
   kCFNumberNSIntegerType = 15,
   kCFNumberCGFloatType = 16,
   kCFNumberMaxType = 16
};
typedef enum CFNumberType CFNumberType;