# typeinfo.print

```
Print typeinfo in a human readable form
  flags - optional parameter, combination of PRTYPE_... bits
The typeinfo object must have the "typid" attribute
If the "name" attribute is present, it will be used in the output too
If failed, returns 0

string typeinfo.print(flags);

#define PRTYPE_1LINE   0x0000  // print to one line
#define PRTYPE_MULTI   0x0001  // print to many lines
#define PRTYPE_TYPE    0x0002  // print type declaration (not variable declaration)
#define PRTYPE_PRAGMA  0x0004  // print pragmas for alignment
#define PRTYPE_SEMI    0x0008  // append ; to the end
#define PRTYPE_CPP     0x0010  // use c++ name (only for print_type2)
#define PRTYPE_DEF     0x0020  // tinfo_t: print definition, if available
#define PRTYPE_NOARGS  0x0040  // tinfo_t: do not print function argument names
#define PRTYPE_NOARRS  0x0080  // tinfo_t: print arguments with #FAI_ARRAY as pointers
#define PRTYPE_NORES   0x0100  // tinfo_t: never resolve types (meaningful with PRTYPE_DEF)
#define PRTYPE_RESTORE 0x0200  // tinfo_t: print restored types for #FAI_ARRAY and #FAI_STRUCT
#define PRTYPE_NOREGEX 0x0400  // do not apply regular expressions to beautify name
#define PRTYPE_COLORED 0x0800  // add color tag COLOR_SYMBOL for any parentheses, commas and colons
#define PRTYPE_METHODS 0x1000  // tinfo_t: print udt methods
#define PRTYPE_1LINCMT 0x02000 // print comments even in the one line mode
#define PRTYPE_HEADER  0x04000 // print only type header (only for definitions)
#define PRTYPE_OFFSETS 0x08000 // print udt member offsets
#define PRTYPE_MAXSTR  0x10000 // limit the output length to 1024 bytes (the output may be slightly longer)
#define PRTYPE_TAIL    0x20000 // print only the definition tail (only for definitions, exclusive with PRTYPE_HEADER)
#define PRTYPE_ARGLOCS 0x40000 // print function arglocs (not only for usercall)
```


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