Can't get object name correctly

allomeen · 01-26-2006, 10:34 AM

hello,
In Visual Basic, the function "TypeName(obj AS Object)" returns the name of the object defined in the project.
In C++ the RTTI function typeid(obj) returns the object name plus prefixed and/or postfixed information. Is there a utility that reliably mimics the Visual Basic function in C++?

Alaa G

graemef · 01-26-2006, 08:44 PM

When you say name of the object, do you mean name of the class for which the object is an instance of?

the typeid operator returns an object of the type_info class. This class has a member function called name which will return the types name, hence you could try:

Code:

typeid(obj).name()

The type_info class also has the comparison operators == and !=

graeme.