rajanikanth jammalamadaka [SMTP:rajanik3@r...] wrote:

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Hi! Jim, Could you please tell me why this code is not working:

#include <iostream> #include <boost/any.hpp> using namespace boost; int main() {

any holdsanything ; holdsanything = 9; std::cout<<holdsanything<<endl; holdsanything = std::string("hello"); std::cout<<holdsanything<<endl; return 0; }

Hi, Raj

You didn't specify what problems you were having. Am I correct in assuming you get a compiler error on the std::cout lines? If so, then the

Hi! Jim, It worked. Thanks, Raj. -- In Boost-Users@y..., "Jim.Hyslop" <jim.hyslop@l...> wrote: problem is

that class 'any' does not have an extraction operator defined. If you change the lines to:

std::cout << any_cast<int>(holdsanything)<<std::endl;

and

std::cout << any_cast<const char *>(holdsanything) << std::endl;

it should work properly.

-- Jim