Re: [Boost-users] [string] HowTo: equiv of printf("%.5s\n", myBuf10);

From: Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-10 10:35:01

Jeff Garland wrote:

>Paul Giaccone wrote:
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>>Lynn Allan wrote:
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>>>I've been puzzled about doing the equivalent of:
>>>printf("%.5s\n", myBuf10);
>>>and also:
>>>printf("%.*s\n", 5, myBuf10);
>>>Note: newbie with std::string ... using Microsoft vc7.1 compiler
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>> 
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>>string isn't a Boost library. You're unlikely to get any help here. Try 
>>posting to comp.lang.c++ on Google Groups.
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>Ture, but format is a Boost library.  You might have a look at:
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>http://www.boost.org/libs/format/doc/format.html
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>You can use format with a std::stringstream and then extract an std::string.
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Ah, my mistake. I didn't spot that. Apologies.

Paul