On Thursday, January 11, 2018 08:59:01 Chirs Forest via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > I'm using std.variant.Variant to hold a value of unknown type > (not a string, could be a numeric type or a container holding > multiple numeric types). I'm trying to retrieve this value with > .get!T but I need the type to do that... .type gives me TypeInfo, > but that's not a type so I'm not sure how to get the type without > checking the TypeInfo against all possible types (which would be > a massive pain).
If you have a variable of the type you put in, then you can use the typeof operator on it to get the type. e.g. int i = 42; static assert(is(typeof(i) == int)); It's even possible to declare variables of voldemort types that way - e.g. if you want to save the result in a member variable. But from what I can tell, you're either going to need to know the type you'r dealing with, or you're going to need a variable of the type so that you can then use typeof on it to get its type. - Jonathan M Davis
