How to use typeid to get the type name as defined by use typedef
Here's my problem:
I defined a new type and used a new type to declare a variable:
typedef int new_type;
new_type value;
I need to somehow get new_type as a string using the typeid, but if I use:
typeid(value)
It will return int instead of new_type.
Is there a way to return new_type as a string?
Thank!
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typedef
are not their own types. Think of it as an alias for the original type.
"Is there a way to return new_type as a string?"
Since this is not the real type, it does not.
Remember that in typeid()
there , which means that it should always return the same ID to (effectively) the same type. id
The only thing I can think of to achieve what you want is creating your own wrapper class
/ struct
that behaves exactly like int
. But I doubt it's worth the effort.
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