Several methods of judging data type by javascript

Posted by sheridan on Tue, 03 Dec 2019 05:48:39 +0100

Several methods of judging data type by javascript
I. typeof directly returns data type fields, but cannot judge array, null, or object

typeof 1
"number"

typeof NaN
"number"

typeof "1"
"string"

typeof true
"boolean"

typeof undefined
"undefined"

typeof null
"object"

typeof []
"object"

typeof {}
"object"

Where null, [], {} all return "object"

2. instanceof determines whether an instance belongs to the prototype

// Constructor
function Fruit(name, color) {
    this.name = name;
    this.color = color;
}
var apple = new Fruit("apple", "red");

// (apple != null)
apple instanceof Object  // true
apple instanceof Array   // false

III. use Object.prototype.toString.call() to judge

call() method can change the direction of this. Then point the Object.prototype.toString() method to different data types and return different results

Object.prototype.toString.call(1)
"[object Number]"

Object.prototype.toString.call(NaN);
"[object Number]"

Object.prototype.toString.call("1");
"[object String]"

Object.prototype.toString.call(true)
"[object Boolean]"

Object.prototype.toString.call(null)
"[object Null]"

Object.prototype.toString.call(undefined)
"[object Undefined]"

Object.prototype.toString.call(function a() {});
"[object Function]"

Object.prototype.toString.call([]);
"[object Array]"

Object.prototype.toString.call({});
"[object Object]"

Finally, we can define a perfect method to judge data type

function _typeof(obj){
  var s = Object.prototype.toString.call(obj);
  return s.match(/\[object (.*?)\]/)[1].toLowerCase();
};


_typeof([12,3,343]);
"array"

_typeof({name: 'zxc', age: 18});
"object"

_typeof(1);
"number"

_typeof("1");
"string"

 _typeof(null);
"null"

_typeof(undefined);
"undefined"

_typeof(NaN);
"number"

_typeof(Date);
"function"

_typeof(new Date());
"date"

_typeof(new RegExp());
"regexp"

Topics: Javascript