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String Parsers (string, lit)
Description

The string parser matches a string of characters. The string parser is an implicit lexeme: the skip parser is not applied in between characters of the string. The string parser has an associated Character Encoding Namespace. This is needed when doing basic operations such as inhibiting case sensitivity. Examples:

string("Hello")
string(L"Hello")
string(s) // s is a std::string

lit, like string, also matches a string of characters. The main difference is that lit does not synthesize an attribute. A plain string like "hello" or a std::basic_string is equivalent to a lit. Examples:

"Hello"
lit("Hello")
lit(L"Hello")
lit(s) // s is a std::string
Header
// forwards to <boost/spirit/home/qi/string/lit.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi_lit.hpp>
Namespace

Name

boost::spirit::lit // alias: boost::spirit::qi::lit

ns::string

In the table above, ns represents a Character Encoding Namespace.

Model of

PrimitiveParser

Notation

s

A String or a Lazy Argument that evaluates to a String.

ns

A Character Encoding Namespace.

Expression Semantics

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

Expression

Semantics

s

Create string parser from a string, s.

lit(s)

Create a string parser from a string, s.

ns::string(s)

Create a string parser with ns encoding from a string, s.

Attributes

Expression

Attribute

s

unused

lit(s)

unused

ns::string(s)

std::basic_string<T> where T is the underlying character type of s.

Complexity

O(N)

where N is the number of characters in the string to be parsed.

Example
[Note] Note

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

Some using declarations:

using boost::spirit::qi::lit;
using boost::spirit::ascii::string;

Basic literals:

test_parser("boost", "boost");          // plain literal
test_parser("boost", lit("boost"));     // explicit literal
test_parser("boost", string("boost"));  // ascii::string

From a std::string

std::string s("boost");
test_parser("boost", s);            // direct
test_parser("boost", lit(s));       // explicit
test_parser("boost", string(s));    // ascii::string

Lazy strings using Phoenix

namespace phx = boost::phoenix;
test_parser("boost", phx::val("boost"));            // direct
test_parser("boost", lit(phx::val("boost")));       // explicit
test_parser("boost", string(phx::val("boost")));    // ascii::string


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