Assignment of Type at Run-Time

[LiquidE_SA]

Imagine such a situation: you have a template data structure class, and you want to stream data from a file into your data structure. Values in the file should all be of the same primitive type, but the type itself is not recorded anywhere explicitly. And the question is: in the main program, how would you find out the type of values that a specific file stores? Because the type is needed to instantiate the data structure before you can start streaming data in... If you guys want to understand the whole problem the link for the Project can be found at: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/download.php/COS212/Assignments/project1.pdf or http://www.cs.up.ac.za/download.php/COS212/Assignments/project1.ps I've been struggling to find a sollution to this problem for weeks now. The project has to be in tomorrow. Help would GREATLY be appreciated. Thanks alot

[Maximilien]

As I understand, you have to use a template to create your tree, but you will manually select which type according to the input file. for example, you will read int if the file contain int, double if te file contain double, ... YourTreeStructure <int > yourIntTree; YourTreeStructure< double > yourDoubleTree;

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