Hi,

I need conversion from strings to integers. But the strings could also be hex numbers.

So example is,

typedef unsigned long hexType;

hexType value;

lexical_cast<HexType>(“0xAABBCCDD”);

How do we extend the boost::lexical_cast to support casting user defined types?

I can perform this by specialization but those would need to be in boost namespace which does not seem to be a recommended way to add customizations.

Thanks,

Shiva