Thanks for the info. Can it be done (at all, at the moment, elegantly, practically, by turning a std::type_info into a type) ?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 January 2010 19:58, Steven Watanabe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:watanabesj@gmail.com">watanabesj@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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Alan Tennant wrote:<br>
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Firstly. Thank you very much team Boost, it looks like it will be very<br>
useful and solve many of my coding problems.<br>
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I can create an any<br>
boost::any a1;<br>
<br>
I can assign something to it<br>
a1 = string1;<br>
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I can get it back out later<br>
std::cout&lt;&lt;any_cast&lt;std::string&gt;(a1);<br>
<br>
A boost any has a &quot;type()&quot; method.<br>
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However this produced an error.<br>
<br>
std::cout&lt;&lt;any_cast&lt;a1.type()&gt;(a1);<br>
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Template parameters have to be types.<br>
The result of a1.type() is a std::type_info object.<br>
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In Christ,<br>
Steven Watanabe<br>
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