Anyone has a nice "view_var" procedure ?

[Stef Mientki]

hello,

Is there some handy/ nice manner to view the properties of some variable ?
As a newbie, I often want to see want all the properties of a var,
and also some corner values (large arrays) etc.

Probably it's not so difficult,
but I don't see how to distinguish for example between a string and an 
array. An array has a shape, a string not etc.


thanks,
Stef Mientki