Re: [boost] hex/unhex()?

Subject: Re: [boost] hex/unhex()?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-02 04:45:42

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Sergey Cheban <s.cheban_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 02.11.2011 0:09, Olaf van der Spek пишет:
>
>> Does Boost have hex/unhex() that support std::string?
>> I can't find them and I think they'd be quite handy to have.
>
> How exactly should it interpret the following lines:
> 01 02
> 0102
> 01 Â 02
> 010 2
> 012
> 01 2
> 01\n02
> 01 | 02
> etc.

Good question. I'd be happy with one that only accepts the simplest variant.

> For the boost library, we need the universal parser that can be customized
> by the policies. It is also reasonable to have the range-based,
> stream-based, 0-terminated and wchar_t-based versions.
>
> But it is much easier to write exactly what you need in your code.

Not really. Copy/paste development is bad. ;)

-- 
Olaf