Type Information
This lesson describes techniques for obtaining the type of an entity.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
typeid #
We have seen numerous instances of the typeid operator in this course. It can be used to retrieve the type of a variable or object at runtime. Because of this, it works well with pointers.
To use typeid, we must include the <typeinfo> header. The operator returns a type_info object that has various methods of its own. ...