You might have to write a wrapper class but they have an example of doing this with the simple gps data class in boost examples. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:31 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: serialization:issues serializing boost variants hello all, I took Ken's advice and went with boost for serialization which seems to have helped quite a bit, but I'm at a dead end here. I'm not able to use archiver << variant to serialize a variant, is there another way that could be done? Thanks, __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind