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

From: Mattias Flodin (flodin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-19 02:58:57

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:01:01AM +0200, Michel André wrote:
> /// convert a wstring to a string
> std::string to_string(const std::wstring& str);
> std::string to_string(const wchar_t* str);
> 
> /// convert a string to a wstring
> std::string to_wstring(const std::string& str);
> std::string to_wstring(const char* str);

These are very useful, but may be hard to make portable. But I guess you
could claim that as long as it works on all platforms that have a sense
of wide-character strings, it is portable.

In any case, shouldn't they be part of the operation of lexical_cast?.
I.e. lexical_cast<wstring>(string()) would perform the same function as
your to_wstring would.

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