Re: Question regarding boolalpha and lexical_cast for 1.30.0

From: Markus Werle (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-14 07:31:44

Paul Wendt wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get lexical_cast to convert a std::string to bool; I realize
> that
> this is done with normal IOStreams by using boolalpha.  Is there a way
> to do this with lexical_cast?  I saw some old posts in the archives and
> they were apparently with older code bases because I was unable to get
> their code snippets to work properly [either that or my compiler is
> messed up :)].
> 
> For reference, I use Visual Studio .NET 2002.
> 
 
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 14:47:37 I proposed this (with code) 
in gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel, see subject
"boost::lexical_cast<bool>("true");"

Markus