How to find out the subclass from the base class object

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Published on 2010-05-18T09:50:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 10:00 UTC
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Is there a way to find out the derived class's name from a base class object?

ex:

class A{
    ....
}
class B extends A{
    ...
}
class c extends A{
    ...
}

now if a method returns an object of A, can I find out if it is of type B or C?

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