TIFFFIELDDATATYPE(3tiff)

💖 TIFFFIELDDATATYPE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to TIFFFIELDDATATYPE(3tiff) — part of the LibTIFF fam 🦋. it's a lil function that tells you what kind of data lives inside a TIFF field. tiny but iconic. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TIFFFieldDataType — get the TIFF data type from field information 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <tiffio.h>

TIFFDataType TIFFFieldDataType(const TIFFField *fip)

like, that's the whole vibe. one function, one argument, zero drama 🎀

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so TIFFFieldDataType() returns the data type stored in a TIFF field. that's it. that's the job. and it ate 🔥

and what's fip you ask? fip is a field information pointer — but not just any random pointer, bestie, it's one that was previously returned by one of these three:

• TIFFFindField()
• TIFFFieldWithTag()
• TIFFFieldWithName()

🫶 fr fr, don't just hand it some random pointer you found in a parking lot. it has to come from one of those three. iykyk.

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🦋 RETURN VALUES 🦋

TIFFFieldDataType() returns a member of the enum type TIFFDataType. that's the whole return story — a lil enum member, doing its best, serving looks 💖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

the whole friend group, together at last 😭💕

• TIFFFieldName (3tiff)
• TIFFFieldPassCount (3tiff)
• TIFFFieldQuery (3tiff)
• TIFFFieldReadCount (3tiff)
• TIFFFieldTag (3tiff)
• TIFFFieldWriteCount (3tiff)
• libtiff (3tiff)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

LibTIFF contributors — the collective. the group chat. the ones who did that 💅✨

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

1988-2025, LibTIFF contributors 🫶

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this was LibTIFF version 4.7, dated Jun 27, 2026 — go forth and type-check those fields, you absolute main character 🧚💜