| re: Instantiating an object of the cmd line arg type
* Madhusudhanan Chandrasekaran:[color=blue]
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> Is it possible for me to instantiate an object of the type
> which is passed in as cmd line argument.[/color]
Command line arguments in C++ are simple C-style strings.
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> I know this can be done
> in Java/Python having reflections. Is there any c++ way of doing this
> either with rtti or some other hack.[/color]
You can parse the command line arguments, find out what kind of object
they specify, and instantiate that kind of object.
There's no built-in feature that helps directly with that.
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