How to check if something is a string?

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Hi @aakashns, welcome to Ziggit!

Check this reply from @dimdin:

Code review: initialization via tuple of tuples

A compile time trick. As you probably already realized, the type of a string is not []const u8 but a 0 sentinel const array of u8 with the length of the string as size. This is impossible to match as type. But I devised a trick to detect if a anytype value is an actual string. @TypeOf can have multiple arguments and returns the type that all the arguments can coerce to. fn isString(comptime v: anytype) bool { const str: []const u8 = ""; return @TypeOf(str, v) == []const u8…

Not at all a noob question, btw