Get name (string) of new class/struct

Question

I looking for a way to get the name of a class (or struct) which is instantiate under C# 6. Exemple :

public class Test
{
public int myvalue;

public Test(int _myvalue){ myvalue= _myvalue;}
}

void Init()
{
    public Test test= new Test(1);
}

void main()
{
    string nameNewTest = // here what I need, that must return "test", not "Test"
}

I saw lot of topics for find the type like : GetType().Name/nameOf/typeof(Class).Name or some stuff like that but no one for the name of a new variable.

Because it is not the name of the instance, it's just a variable name. Maybe you mean `nameof(test)` (C#6), but since your code snippet is not valid c# it's hard to tell where to use that. — René Vogt, Aug 24 '16 at 12:18
This doesn't even compile (ignoring `main`). Please try to correct your example and explain exactly what you want to achieve. — germi, Aug 24 '16 at 12:24
Please clean up your question, post a [mcve] and state exactly what you want and why. — Lasse V. Karlsen, Aug 24 '16 at 12:25
Do you mean the name of the instance "test" or the name of the class "Test"? (because, you know `Test test = new Test()` is a really bad example if you want to get "test"/"Test") — Manfred Radlwimmer, Aug 24 '16 at 13:10
@ManfredRadlwimmer he mentioned in the comments of the current answer he does not want "Test", he wanted "test". — Scott Chamberlain, Aug 24 '16 at 13:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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You can use

string nameNewTest = nameof(Test);

Without C# 6

string nameNewTest = typeof(Test).Name;

You can look at this post for properties/fields

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Aug 24 '16 at 12:21

A.Pissicat

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Yes but without C# 6. – bobHihi Aug 24 '16 at 12:49
I edited the answer, you can use `typeof(T).Name` – A.Pissicat Aug 24 '16 at 13:00
Take look at the end of my topic, I already try typeof(T).Name but that give me "Test" for my exemple. In your link, that's works only for fields, not for class =/struct – bobHihi Aug 24 '16 at 13:05
I don't understand, where did "test" come from ? If you want your class `Test` to lower use `typeof(Test).Name.ToLower()`. If you want the name for variable `public Test test` define in `void Init()` you can't get it in `void main()`because there are separated functions. Where are these both functions declared ? – A.Pissicat Aug 24 '16 at 13:34
test is a new class of Test (line 10), and this is an exemple just for explain what I need. – bobHihi Aug 24 '16 at 15:00
Did the link solve your problem ? You can do `MemberInfoGetting.GetMemberName(() => test)` – A.Pissicat Aug 24 '16 at 15:07
Unfortunately no :/ this works only for field not for instance – bobHihi Aug 24 '16 at 15:20

Get name (string) of new class/struct

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