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Character Classification (alnum, digit, etc.)
Description

The library has the full repertoire of single character generators for character classification. This includes the usual alnum, alpha, digit, xdigit, etc. generators. These generators have an associated Character Encoding Namespace. This is needed when doing basic operations such as forcing lower or upper case.

Header
// forwards to <boost/spirit/home/karma/char/char_class.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/karma_char_class.hpp>

Also, see Include Structure.

Namespace

Name

ns::alnum

ns::alpha

ns::blank

ns::cntrl

ns::digit

ns::graph

ns::lower

ns::print

ns::punct

ns::space

ns::upper

ns::xdigit

In the table above, ns represents a Character Encoding Namespace used by the corresponding character class generator. All listed generators have a mandatory attribute Ch and will not compile if no attribute is associated.

Model of

PrimitiveGenerator

Notation

ns

A Character Encoding Namespace.

Expression Semantics

Semantics of an expression is defined only where it differs from, or is not defined in PrimitiveGenerator.

Expression

Semantics

ns::alnum

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isalnum in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::alpha

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isalpha in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::blank

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isblank in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::cntrl

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::iscntrl in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::digit

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isdigit in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::graph

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isgraph in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::print

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isprint in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::punct

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::ispunct in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::xdigit

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isxdigit in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::lower

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::islower in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::upper

If the mandatory attribute satisfies the concept of std::isupper in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.

ns::space

If the optional attribute satisfies the concept of std::isspace in the Character Encoding Namespace the generator succeeds after emitting its attribute (unless the underlying output stream reports an error). This generator fails otherwise while not generating anything.If no attribute is supplied this generator emits a single space character in the character set defined by ns.

Possible values for ns are described in the section Character Encoding Namespace.

[Note] Note

The generators alpha and alnum might seem to behave unexpected if used inside a lower[] or upper[] directive. Both directives additionally apply the semanitics of std::islower or std::isupper to the respective character class. Some examples:

std::string s;
std::back_insert_iterator<std::string> out(s);
generate(out, lower[alpha], 'a');               // succeeds emitting 'a'
generate(out, lower[alpha], 'A');               // fails 

The generator directive upper[] behaves correspondingly.

Attributes

All listed character class generators can take any attribute Ch. All character class generators (except space) require an attribute and will fail compiling otherwise.

[Note] Note

In addition to their usual attribute of type Ch all listed generators accept an instance of a boost::optional<Ch> as well. If the boost::optional<> is initialized (holds a value) the generators behave as if their attribute was an instance of Ch and emit the value stored in the boost::optional<>. Otherwise the generators will fail.

Complexity

O(1)

The complexity is constant as the generators emit not more than one character per invocation.

Example
[Note] Note

The test harness for the example(s) below is presented in the Basics Examples section.

Some includes:

#include <boost/spirit/include/karma.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix_core.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix_operator.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/include/std_pair.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

Some using declarations:

using boost::spirit::karma::alpha;
using boost::spirit::karma::upper;

Basic usage of an alpha generator:

test_generator_attr("a", alpha, 'a');
test_generator_attr("A", alpha, 'A');
test_generator_attr("", alpha, '1');          // fails (as isalpha('1') is false)
test_generator_attr("A", upper[alpha], 'A');
test_generator_attr("", upper[alpha], 'a');   // fails (as isupper('a') is false)


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