RE: [Boost-Users] lexical_cast question

From: Björn Karlsson (bjorn.karlsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-16 08:42:46

> From: Mark Snelling [mailto:mark_at_[hidden]]
> 
> Hi,
> Does the boost::lexical_cast library support wide character sets for 
> example:
> 
> #include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
> 
> using namespace boost;
> using namespace std;
> 
> void main ()
> {
> 	wstring wtext(L"1234");
> 	int val = lexical_cast<int>(wtext);
> }
> 

Not the current version of lexical_cast - the implementation uses
stringstream to perform the conversion. A proposed change to lexical_cast
does handle wide characters correctly. I'm not sure about the status of that
proposal, though. 

Bjorn Karlsson