Re: [boost] Re: lexical_cast again

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-04 12:04:53

> Hm, not me. Maybe I'm not clever enough. I changed lexical_cast as you
> suggested and made 'call' a static function.

Oops. :-)

> Worked fine. Next, I
> tried to specialize it:
> 
> typedef const char U[];
> template<> string lexical_cast_helper< string, U >::call( const U& arg
> )
> {
>    return string( arg );
> }
> 
> But my compiler says:
> 
> t.cc:39: parameter type `const char (&)[]' includes reference to array
> of unknown bound

Try this:

template<std::size_t N> string lexical_cast_helper<string, char[N]>
{
    static std::string call(char const * s)
    {
        return s;
    }
};

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.