$val = wave.type ("<wavefile>")

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Returns the type of wave file.

Parameters

<wavefile> Specify the name of the wave file.

Return Value

On success it returns the type of wave file, otherwise returns 0.

Remark

It returns UNKNOWN or 0, when the wave file format does not belong to the following types:

PCM16_8KHz_stereo, PCM16_8KHz, A-law, μ-law, GSM

Example

1. $val = wave.type("welcome.wav")
   msgbox($val)


• The format of welcome.wav is GSM.
  $val contains GSM.