I had originally asked this question here: Former Question
It appears that what I was asking for was misunderstood. I will try to make this as clear and as brief as possible:
I'm working on a parser that will automatically generate a c++ class and if the names of the header and cpp files are present the parser will write out those files respectively. If they are omitted then the parser will not write any files where it will generate a class automatically based on the information that is pulled in from the file.
What I don't know how to do: Let's say my class's identifier is stored in a std::string how can I extract the text in the string to use that as the class's name. For example:
{
std::string className( "Foo" );
// parser writing class in code
class className { ....
}
This is what I don't know how to do if it can even be done. As stated in my previous question I prefer to stay away from macros but wouldn't mind using templates if needed or some other mechanism.
Conclusion
After reading the comments and the provided answer below; my initial assumption that I didn't mention was in fact proven true. It can not be done. I was suspicious of this, but only wanted to confirm. So this does leave me in having to write out to files in order to create the needed header and or source files at run time.
