Re: [boost] String formatting library: interest?

From: Mattias Flodin (flodin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-13 06:03:13

I may be missing something here, but I thought a format library has
been in the makings for some time now. What is the difference between
this proposal and the library already in progress?

/Mattias

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:05:41PM +0200, Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> > What I am proposing here is an 'extension' to std::string to add
> formatting
> > capabilities ala-sprintf, but in a type-safe, no-ellipsis manner. The
> credit
> > for this idea goes to Trolltech (QString in the Qt package
> > ...
> > A quick example:
> >
> > cout << mystring("Hello, my name is %1 and I am %2 years
> > old").arg("Giovanni").arg(999) << endl;
> 
> I would find this a nice addition indeed. QString works very beautifully.

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