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How I can determine the size of a symbol (i.e. TI-Basic variable) and the TIOS type of the variable?

April 26, 2017determine size symbol ti-basic type

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How I can determine the size of a symbol (i.e. TI-Basic variable) and the TIOS type of the variable?

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Assume that you found a VAT symbol entry for a symbol (say symbol named “foo”) which may be done for example using SymFindPtr: SYM_ENTRY *sym; … sym = SymFindPtr (SYMSTR (“foo”), 0); Then, do the following to find the size and type: unsigned short size; ESQ type; … size = ((MULTI_EXPR*) HeapDeref (sym->handle))->Size + 2; type = *(HToESI (sym->handle)); After this, the variables ‘size’ and ‘type’ will contain exactly what do you want.