Re: [boost] Small lib proposal -- String Algorithms

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-18 10:32:23

At Friday, 18 October 2002, Pavol Droba <droba_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Many times I was missing some fundamental string manipulation routines,
>which are not part of STL, especially functions link trim and various
>conversion routines like to_upper and to_lower.
>
>Although these function are realy simple, I found it as a pain in 
the neck
>to reimplement them every time I need them.
>Now I'm putting them in one lib in some nice looking manner.

Pavol - 

There is interest and has been discussion of this type
of library in the past. Darin Adler and others have done
some interesting work.  Take a look at: 

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?STLAlgorithmExtensions/StringAlgorithms

It would be nice if someone would take the lead and 
get this stuff into the sandbox where we could shake 
it out and beef it up for review.

Jeff