see attached Peter "Alan Tennant" <alan2here@gmail.com> wrote in message news:a557f5fb1001301059h1dfc32davd917a47d8c598a05@mail.gmail.com... Firstly. Thank you very much team Boost, it looks like it will be very useful and solve many of my coding problems. I can create an any boost::any a1; I can assign something to it a1 = string1; I can get it back out later std::cout<<any_cast<std::string>(a1); A boost any has a "type()" method. However this produced an error. std::cout<<any_cast<a1.type()>(a1); ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users