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## Name

type — test the type of the value in a Sieve variable

## Synopsis

`type` { *`variable`* } { *`string`* }

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## Description

Some actions (such as `ec_config`) can return more than one type of value. Use this test to check the type of the value in a Sieve variable. Possible types are:

*   "string"

*   "number"

*   "stringlist"

*   "hash"

*   "tag"

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```
$opt = ec_config "get" "Debug_Flags" "DEBUG";
# first, see if the option was set
if type :is $opt "stringlist" {
  # now check the option value
  $dummy = join "," $opt;
  if ec_test $dummy "SMTP" {
    ec_log "SMTP debugging is turned on";
  }
}
```

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