Better way to get type of a Javascript variable?

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Angus Croll recently wrote an interesting blog post about this –

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/fixing-the-javascript-typeof-operator/

He goes through the pros and cons of the various methods then defines a new method ‘toType’ –

var toType = function(obj) {
  return ({}).toString.call(obj).match(/\s([a-zA-Z]+)/)[1].toLowerCase()
}

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