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Boost 1.37.0 Library Documentation - String and text processing

String and text processing

Conversion

Polymorphic and lexical casts.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
Format

The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences: format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types; the ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is replaced by successive calls to an argument feeding operator%.

Author(s)
Samuel Krempp
First Release
1.29.0
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
Iostreams

Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters.

Author(s)
Jonathan Turkanis
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
Lexical Cast

General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.20.0
Categories
Miscellaneous, String and text processing
Regex

Regular expression library.

Author(s)
John Maddock
First Release
1.18.0
Categories
String and text processing
Spirit

LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser and Dan Nuffer
First Release
1.30.0
Categories
Parsing, String and text processing
String Algo

String algorithms library.

Author(s)
Pavol Droba
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Algorithms, String and text processing
Tokenizer

Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens.

Author(s)
John Bandela
First Release
1.23.0
Categories
Iterators, String and text processing
Wave

The Boost.Wave library is a Standards conformant, and highly configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface.

Author(s)
Hartmut Kaiser
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
String and text processing
Xpressive

Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and which can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars.

Author(s)
Eric Niebler
First Release
1.34.0
Categories
String and text processing