Getting Type Names in C++

For logging and debugging it can be extremely useful to get a string for the name of a type in C++. However, the standard library doesn't supply a great way of doing that. We don't want to use the standard typeid operator, std::type_info, or std::typ...

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Steve

Apr 12, 2024

Thanks for the article. However your code samples are incomplete. Get_TypeName() is not defined and neither is nIsCharacter

Oops I should have mentioned what nIsCharacter was. It's just a boring custom type trait like std::is_integral_v. Get_TypeName() though is defined, are you referring to the class member function?

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Paul Mattione

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Jul 1, 2024

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