std::experimental::any_cast

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Technical Specifications

Technical specifications

Filesystem library (filesystem TS)

Library fundamentals (library fundamentals TS)

Library fundamentals 2 (library fundamentals 2 TS)

Extensions for parallelism (parallelism TS)

Extensions for parallelism 2 (parallelism TS v2)

Extensions for concurrency (concurrency TS)

Concepts (concepts TS)

Ranges (ranges TS)

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Library fundamentals

experimental::optional

experimental::any

experimental::basic_string_view

experimental::sample

experimental::shared_ptr

experimental::weak_ptr

experimental::apply

experimental::invocation_type experimental::raw_invocation_type

experimental::search

experimental::default_searcher experimental::make_default_searcher

experimental::boyer_moore_searcher experimental::make_boyer_moore_searcher

experimental::boyer_moore_horspool_searcher experimental::make_boyer_moore_horspool_searcher

type-erased and polymorphic allocators

variable templates for type traits

std::experimental::any

Member functions

any::any

any::operator=

Modifers

any::clear

any::swap

Observers

any::empty

any::type

Non-member functions

swap(std::experimental::any)

any_cast

template<class ValueType> ValueType any_cast(const any& operand);	(1)	(library fundamentals TS)
template<class ValueType> ValueType any_cast(any& operand);	(2)	(library fundamentals TS)
template<class ValueType> ValueType any_cast(any&& operand);	(3)	(library fundamentals TS)
template<class ValueType> const ValueType* any_cast(const any* operand) noexcept;	(4)	(library fundamentals TS)
template<class ValueType> ValueType* any_cast(any* operand) noexcept;	(5)	(library fundamentals TS)

Performs type-safe access to the contained object.

For (1-3), the program is ill-formed if ValueType is not a reference and std::is_copy_constructible<ValueType>::value is false.

Parameters

operand

-

target any object

Return value

1) Returns *any_cast<std::add_const_t<std::remove_reference_t<ValueType>>>(&operand).

2-3) Returns *any_cast<std::remove_reference_t<ValueType>>(&operand).

4-5) If operand is not a null pointer, and the typeid of the requested ValueType matches that of the contents of operand, a pointer to the value contained by operand, otherwise a null pointer.

Exceptions

1-3) Throws bad_any_cast if the typeid of the requested ValueType does not match that of the contents of operand.