[boost] Re: Regex ease-of-use ideas

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-07 11:32:15

"Neal D. Becker" <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> spirit::file_iterator has different implementations (through a policy),
>> and works on posix/windows, using memory mapped files when available.
>> Plus, there is a freestand version (std::fopen and friends). It uses
>> Boost.IteratorAdaptor (new version).
>
> I'm looking at your spirit::file_iterator impl.  Looks pretty cool.

Yeah, very!  Unfortunately it doesn't quite do what I want AFAICT.
Suppose I want a file iterator over std::cin?  I think I want a
cacheing iterator that can adapt some other base iterator,
e.g. istreambuf_iterator<char>.

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