Determine if Type is a pointer in a template function

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Indeed, templates can do that, with partial template specialization:

template<typename T>
struct is_pointer { static const bool value = false; };

template<typename T>
struct is_pointer<T*> { static const bool value = true; };

template<typename T>
void func(const std::vector<T>& v) {
    std::cout << "is it a pointer? " << is_pointer<T>::value << std::endl;
}

If in the function you do things only valid to pointers, you better use the method of a separate function though, since the compiler type-checks the function as a whole.

You should, however, use boost for this, it includes that too: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/type_traits/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/is_pointer.html

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