Re: printing template argument

On May 8, 3:31 am, Venkat <swara...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm wondering about how to print the name of the template argument in
> a template method.

Not in general.

There's a hack based on a gcc extension that works, though:

template<class T> string type_name()
{
         string s= __PRETTY_FUNCTION__;

         int p1 = s.find('[');
         int p2 = s.rfind(']');

         return s.substr(p1 + 9, p2-p1-9);
}

It's generally good enough for debugging purposes. You might have to
tweak 9 for different GCC versions.

-Ed
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