PetscTypeCompare

Determines whether a PETSc object is of a particular type.

#include "petsc.h"    
PetscErrorCode  PetscTypeCompare(PetscObject obj,const char type_name[],PetscTruth *same)

Not Collective

	obj	- any PETSc object, for example a Vec, Mat or KSP. This must be cast with a (PetscObject), for example, PetscObjectDestroy((PetscObject)mat);
	type_name	- string containing a type name

same -PETSC_TRUE if they are the same, else PETSC_FALSE