I believe you're looking for:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/roscpp/Overview/Names%20and%20Node%20Information
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ivan Dryanovski
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ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I access the name of a node from inside a cpp program? I know that
> one of the argv** arguments passed through the program is
> "__name:=FOO". Is there an easier way to access that, without having
> to parse through the argv values?
>
> What I am eventually interested in is having the name of the node
> prepended to ROS_INFO statements. I was going to do it manually by
> finding the name of the node and doing
>
> ROS_INFO("%s: Some message here.", nodeName_);
>
> Which would result in
>
> FOO: Some message here.
>
> If someone has a suggestion for a cleaner way to do this, let me know please!
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan Dryanovski
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