Creating a object depending on the content of a pointer?

[MrBob1337]

If I wanted to do something like this:

Class Function()
{
    Class class;
    Class class_2;
     class_2 = new class;
    return class_2;
}

what would be the proper way to? I've already tried searching "Factory C++", which is what I'm trying to make. Is there any way to do this?

[nullsquared]

No.

[editline]09:56PM[/editline]

The simplest factory is something like so:

class base { ... };
class foo : public base { ... };
class bar : public base { ... };

base *create(const string &type)
{
    if (type == "foo") return new foo();
    else if (type == "bar") return new bar();
    ...

    return NULL;
}

int main()
{
    base *guy = create("foo");
}

[MrBob1337]

Oh, ok thanks.