# Using macros to explode a struct into a tuple of its members

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [April 10, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-macros-to-explode-a-struct-into-a-tuple-of-its-members/58997 "2021-04-10T17:36:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-macros-to-explode-a-struct-into-a-tuple-of-its-members/58997/7 "2021-04-11T00:25:22Z")

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See also [this discourse thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-fieldnames-and-values-of-struct-as-namedtuple/8991), which discussed conversion to a `NamedTuple` and also recommended a generated function.

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