Re: [Boost-users] Decoding hex strings

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-26 11:12:30

Stefan Arentz wrote:

> Sure. I'm doing the conversion manually now, but I had hoped for some
> kind of 'codec' component in Boost. Now it's hex but maybe later I
> need to decode/encode base64 for example. It sounds like a good
> candidate for a future library.
>
> S.

Note that the serialization library has "dataflow iterators" which
are used to convert to base64 and back again.  I'm sure a minor
variation of this could be used for hex data of arbitrary length.

Robert Ramey