Re: [Boost-users] Does boost have something to support binarydatastreams?

From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth (mcbeth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-10 18:33:42

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:55:52PM -0600, Michael Marcin wrote:
> 
> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:eqjtbp$j2c$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> > Hmmm - sounds to me like you want the serialization library.
> >
> 
> The serialization library looks nice but I didn't think it was designed for 
> this task, although I admit I haven't finished its documentation.
> 
> The general problem is I have binary data comming out of a 3rd party tool 
> that I need to import and convert to something the application can work 
> with.  Also several different formats of binary input data can be imported 
> and have the same representation in the application.
> 
> Is this a good match for serialization?

No, it isn't.  I haven't seen the library posted in the sandbox, hopefully
that is closer to what you really need.

Jeff

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