>>>>>I have an array which contains the name of some fields in my table. From that array, I would like to extract the type of the field. Is there a way to do that from the array?
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>>>>? type(myfields(i))
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>>>That returns N even if my field type is I.
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>>Why not use AFIELDS() find the matching field name and get the data type from column 2?
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>Yes, that seems to be the only solution to do. But, why TYPE doesn't work on integer?

Don't know, but it's documented that TYPE() and VARTYPE() return N for Numeric, Integer, Double, and Float datatypes.