gdaGetType¶

Purpose¶

Gets the type of a variable in a GAUSS Data Archive.

Format¶

vartype = gdaGetType(filename, varname)¶

Parameters:

filename (string) – name of data file.
varname (string) – name of variable in the GDA.

Returns:

vartype (scalar) – type of the variable in the GDA.

Examples¶

vartype = gdaGetType("myfile.gda", "x1");

Remarks¶

The return vartype may contain any of the following:

6	Matrix
13	String
15	String array
21	Array

If gdaGetType() fails, it will return a scalar error code. Call scalerr() to get the value of the error code. The error code may be any of the following:

1	Null file name.
2	File open error.
4	File read error.
5	Invalid file type.
8	Variable not found.
10	File contains no variables.
14	File too large to be read on current platform.