Declaring a data type dynamically in C++
- by Bobby
I want to be able to do the following:
I have an array of strings that contain data types:
string DataTypeValues[20] = {"char", "unsigned char", "short", "int"};
Then later, I would like to create a variable of one of the data types at runtime. I won't know at compile time what the correct data type should be.
So for example, if at runtime I determined a variable x needed to be of type int:
DataTypeValues[3] x = 100;
Obviously this won't work, so how could I do something like this?
