Hi Alberto,
Forget the second point of my previous mail. Simply call
branch->GetClassName();
I had already implemented GetClassName in TBranch a while ago ::)
Rene Brun
On 8 Oct 2002, Alberto Pulvirenti wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to perform the following operation.
>
> I read a TTree object from a file, but, in principle, I don't know WHAT
> kind of objects are stored in it. The only thing I know is that it
> should contain a unique branch, called "Points".
>
> Question 1:
> I guess that I can check the existence of that branch by using
> TTree::GetBranch("Points"), which should return a NULL pointer in case
> that such branch does not exist. Am I right?
>
> Question 2:
> This branch should have been filled with objects if a given specified
> class, say "point". How can I check if the entries stored into this
> branch are of the correct type?
>
> Thanks
>
> alberto
>
>
>
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