;
;Copyright 1996-2013 United States Government as represented by the
;Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
;All Rights Reserved.
; This software may be used, copied, or redistributed as long as it is not
; sold and this copyright notice is reproduced on each copy made.  This
; routine is provided as is without any express or implied warranties
; whatsoever.
;

;equivalent to IDL's typename introduce in 8.0
function cmb_var_type,a
si = size(a,/str)
return,si.type_name
end