From: "sl" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: HELP - typeinfo/typeid Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 04:01:20 -0500 (EST) Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT supernews DOT com X-Newsreader: PMINews 2.00.1205 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello, I have tried using typeid() to identify the characteristics of my variables at runtime.. For example, I have a class "VESA1_2", but when I run: cout << typeid(VESA1_2).name() << endl; on it for example, I get "Q22sc7VESA1_2" as the output.. What is the syntax of the output of typeid() and typeid().name()? Thank you in advance, Gili