using an object of a template class as a parameter

[philipjan09]

Hi,
I've written a template class:

template <typename T>
class example
{
    public:
        T value;
    ....
};

and I use an object of this class as a parameter of a function

int exampleFunc (example &input)
{
    return (int)input.value;
}

but what have I to do when I want to use the function with any object of example, I mean with example<double> same like with example<int> or anything else. The only idea i had was to overload the function with any possible datatype but that's not practical.

Has anyone an idea how it works?

[ne555]

The only idea i had was to overload the function with any possible datatype

template<typename T>
T exampleFunc (example<T> &input)