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Boolean Parser (bool_)
Description

The bool_parser can parse booleans of arbitrary type, B. The boolean base type T can be a user defined boolean type as long as the type follows certain expression requirements (documented below).

Header
// forwards to <boost/spirit/home/qi/numeric/bool.hpp>
#include <boost/spirit/include/qi_bool.hpp>

Also, see Include Structure.

Namespace

Name

boost::spirit::bool_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::bool_

boost::spirit::true_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::true_

boost::spirit::false_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::false_

Synopsis
template <typename T, typename BooleanPolicies>
struct bool_parser;
Template parameters

Parameter

Description

Default

B

The boolean type of the boolean parser.

bool

BooleanPolicies

Policies control the parser's behavior.

bool_policies<B>

Model of

PrimitiveParser

Notation

BP

A boolean Policies (type).

b

An object of B, the numeric base type.

boolean

Numeric literal, any boolean value, or a Lazy Argument that evaluates to a boolean value.

f, l

ForwardIterator. first/last iterator pair.

attr

An attribute value.

Context

The type of the parse context of the current invocation of the bool_ parser.

ctx

An instance of the parse context, Context.

Expression Semantics

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

Expression

Semantics

bool_

Parse a boolean using the default policies (bool_policies<T>).

lit(boolean)
bool_(boolean)

Match the literal boolean using the default policies (bool_policies<T>). The parser will fail if the parsed value is not equal to the specified value.

true_
false_

Match "true" and "false", respectively.

bool_parser<
    T, BoolPolicies
>()

Parse a real of type T using BoolPolicies.

bool_parser<
    T, BoolPolicies
>()(boolean)

Match the literal boolean of type T using BoolPolicies. The parser will fail if the parsed value is not equal to the specified value.

[Note] Note

All boolean parsers properly respect the no_case[] directive.

Attributes

Expression

Attribute

lit(boolean)

unused

true_
false_
bool_
bool_(boolean)

bool

bool_parser<
    T, BoolPolicies
>()
bool_parser<
    T, BoolPolicies
>()(num)

T

Complexity

O(N), where N is the number of characters being parsed.

Minimum Expression Requirements for B

The boolean type, B, the minimum expression requirements listed below must be valid. Take note that additional requirements may be imposed by custom policies.

Expression

Semantics

B(bool)

Constructible from a bool.

Boolean Policies

The boolean Policies template parameter is a class that groups all the policies that control the parser's behavior. Policies control the boolean parsers' behavior.

The default is bool_policies<bool>. The default is provided to take care of the most common case (there are many ways to represent, and hence parse, boolean numbers). In most cases, the default policies are sufficient and can be used straight out of the box. They are designed to parse boolean value of the form "true" and "false".

Boolean Policies Expression Requirements

For models of boolean Policies the following expressions must be valid:

Expression

Semantics

BP::parse_true(f, l, attr)

Parse a true value.

BP::parse_false(f, l, attr)

Parse a false value.

The functions should return true if the required representations of true or false have been found. In this case the attribute n should be set to the matched value (true or false).

Boolean Policies Specializations

The easiest way to implement a proper boolean parsing policy is to derive a new type from the type bool_policies while overriding the aspects of the parsing which need to be changed. For example, here's the implementation of a boolean parsing policy interpreting the string "eurt" (i.e. "true" spelled backwards) as false:

struct backwards_bool_policies : qi::bool_policies<>
{
    // we want to interpret a 'true' spelled backwards as 'false'
    template <typename Iterator, typename Attribute>
    static bool
    parse_false(Iterator& first, Iterator const& last, Attribute& attr)
    {
        namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
        if (qi::detail::string_parse("eurt", first, last, qi::unused))
        {
            spirit::traits::assign_to(false, attr);    // result is false
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
};
Example
[Note] Note

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

Some using declarations:

using boost::phoenix::val;
using boost::spirit::qi::bool_;
using boost::spirit::qi::bool_parser;
using boost::spirit::qi::lit;

Basic real number parsing:

// bool
test_parser("true", bool_);
test_parser("false", bool_);
test_parser("true", bool_(true));
test_parser("false", bool_(false));
test_parser("true", bool_(val(true)));
test_parser("false", bool_(val(false)));

// literals
test_parser("true", lit(true));
test_parser("false", lit(false));
test_parser("true", lit(val(true)));
test_parser("false", lit(val(false)));

A custom real number policy:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  These policies can be used to parse "eurt" (i.e. "true" spelled backwards)
//  as `false`
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
struct backwards_bool_policies : boost::spirit::qi::bool_policies<>
{
    // we want to interpret a 'true' spelled backwards as 'false'
    template <typename Iterator, typename Attribute>
    static bool
    parse_false(Iterator& first, Iterator const& last, Attribute& attr)
    {
        namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
        if (qi::detail::string_parse("eurt", first, last, qi::unused))
        {
            namespace traits = boost::spirit::traits;
            traits::assign_to(false, attr);    // result is false
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
};

And its use:

bool_parser<bool, backwards_bool_policies> backwards_bool;
test_parser("true", backwards_bool);
test_parser("eurt", backwards_bool);
test_parser("true", backwards_bool(true));
test_parser("eurt", backwards_bool(false));


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