# How to check if something is a string? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** language\ **Created:** [September 2, 2024, 6:58am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/how-to-check-if-something-is-a-string/5857 "2024-09-02T06:58:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![tensorush](https://ziggit.dev/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tensorush](https://ziggit.dev/u/tensorush)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/how-to-check-if-something-is-a-string/5857/2 "2024-09-02T07:08:38Z")
Hi @aakashns, welcome to Ziggit! Check this reply from @dimdin: > [@Code review: initialization via tuple of tuples](https://ziggit.dev/t/code-review-initialization-via-tuple-of-tuples/5548/2): > > 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 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://ziggit.dev/t/how-to-check-if-something-is-a-string/5857)._