Leozard

Thanks Viklc. Trying that now.

Wow. Thanks Viklc. Would be nice to have that first function into some library(Like Python modules) that could be called in any wrangle node.
And your list of mapped ids seems to be exhaustive.

So I was in a situation where I had the verify the data type of some values using a printf statement. So, for the first time, I come across the typeid() function. Which returns integer numbers instead of words like float, integer, vector 2, etc. So I searched google to find out if there is correspondence list somewhere which can tell me what number corresponds to what datatype. Scarcely do I find anything. I was almost troubled, like: no one is ever checking the return type of vex values; Is there another way"
Sidefx help docs also seldom mention it. So question is: am I missing something?
Anyway I went on to create my little vex snippet to tell what what IDs are what. Basically

vector myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 3
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vector myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 13

Or

int myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 0
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int myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 10

or

float myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 1
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int myvar;
printf(%s,typeid(myvar)); which returns 11

and so on...
As you can see, there is a pattern where if the Id of a type is n, the array of that that same type will be 1n