Re: [boost] [RFC] string inserter/extractor "q u o t i n g"

Subject: Re: [boost] [RFC] string inserter/extractor "q u o t i n g"
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-23 11:48:31

On 6/23/2010 11:30 AM, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> From Eric Niebler, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:02 PM
>> Parser and lexer generators are complicated beasts, and I wouldn't send a
>> novice programmer in that direction if it could be helped. Most
>> quoting/unquoting is very straightforward. There's a quote character and an
>> escape character. For anything more complicated, yes, build your own.
> 
> Do you think uri escaping (reserved chars are replaced with %hexdigit hexdigit) should be supported as well?

By this utility? No. By another string algorithm? Yeah, maybe. Could be
useful for both filesystem and asio. What's your use case?

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Eric Niebler
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