Re: [boost] String scanning (was String formatting library: interest?)

From: Martin Fuchs (martin-fuchs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-01 05:28:02

> I would imagine that there is no corresponding library because of the
> vast number of ways to validate and transform input, from the low-level
> tokenizer library all the way up to full parsing with semantic
expressions,
> etc.

boost::format is based on ostream output functionality.
It roughly takes a format string and translates it into ostream actions.
I think some thing similar could be done to implement a string/stream, which
internally uses std::istream.

Martin