Re: [ROOT] Branches

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 21:33:20 MEST


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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