Question

I need to create a map that can contain as its value any basic data type such as double,float,string, char etc… to store values from a request for a server component.

I was thinking of using a map such as this: std::map<std::string, void*>, however I don’t know that this is a very good solution.

I wondered if anyone can advice on a better solution. The main point is that the values have to be in the same map.

Please advice?

Answer 1

You could use boost::any as the value which can hold “any” type.

(It is better to use boost::variant if there are only finitely many “basic data types”)