[boost] Re: Re: [tokenizer and token_iterator] requestforpolicyorredesign

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-29 02:33:23

"Pavol Droba" <droba_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20040928222854.GU29008_at_lenin.felcer.sk...

| If I remember correctly your last complain was, that dereferencing the
iterator
| does not yield a string, so you cannot manipulate it easily.
|
| find_iterator will dereference to an iterator_range. There is plenty of
goodies
| in the Boost.Range library that help you to live with it. For instance,
there
| are comparison operators between arbitrary range types, and if you need
| more, you can always convert the range to something else using the
| copy_iterator_range function (maybe something shorter and easier to use can
| be provided as well).

copy_range<string>( *it ) should do the work.

| Please consider these options. Some of them are not currently available
since,
| the StringAlgo lib has not been merged yet with the Range lib (I was afraid
| to do it before release).

this is a bit unfortunate since we now have two iterator_range classes hanging
around. Is yours in namespace
boost::algorithm::string ? If so, a small note about how to avoid clashes
would be good in the string algo docs.

br

Thorsten