[boost] Re: lexical_cast and bool

From: Vincent Finn (vincent_finn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-20 08:39:06

Neal D. Becker wrote:
>>>>>>"Roland" == Roland Richter <roland_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>     Roland> Dear all,
>     Roland> just a minor issue for the upcoming(?) lexical_cast in 1.30.0:
> 
>     Roland> lexical_cast<bool>( "true" ) returns false,
>     Roland> since std::ios::boolalpha is not set by default.
> 
>     Roland> How about changing this?
> 
> I believe we need a mechanism to set all the flags, not just this one.

true
I have altered my copy of the file with boolalpha
but I always have to go back to the stream if I want to do hex
being able to set fill, precision etc... would be nice too

No simple generic way to do it that I could think of though :-(

        Vin