Storing a type in C++

Question

Is it possible to store a type name as a C++ variable? For example, like this:

type my_type = int; // or string, or Foo, or any other type
void* data = ...;
         


        

Answer 1

No you can't store the type directly as you want, but you can instead store the name of the type.

const char* str = typeid(int).name();

I guess whenever you planned to use that variable for comparison, you could instead at that time compare the str variable against the name() of the types.

const char* myType = typeid(int).name();

//....

//Some time later:
if(!strcmp(myType, typeid(int).name()))
{
  //Do something
}

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