Re: [Boost-users] [Range.Ex / String.Algo] Ambiguous call to overload function "find"

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Range.Ex / String.Algo] Ambiguous call to overload function "find"
From: Neil Groves (neil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-03 05:57:33

Hello!

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:38 AM, æ¢ç»æ±  <shaochiliang_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I use vc 9.0 to compile the following code with boost 1.39.0 and range_ex.
>     #include<string>
>     #include<boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
>     #include<boost/range/algorithm.hpp>
>
>     int main() {
>         std::string s = "hello";
>         boost::find_first(s, "lo");
>         return 0;
>     }
>
> The compiler will complain ambiguous call to overload function "find". I
> found there's also a "find" in boost/range/algorithm.hpp. Even worse when I
> change the type of "s" to const std::string, the compiler will resolute
> "find" call as the one in boost/range/algorithm.hpp
> and reports an error "const_iterator is not a member of
> std::_String_const_iterator". Now I just indicated the "find" call in
> boost::find_first explicitly. Is there a better way to solve it?
>

I'm not sure why there should be any conflict. I will test this problem out
over the weekend. Would you please clarify which RangeEx you are using. Are
you using the latest version from the vault in the algorithm directory? I
appreciate that these difficulties would not occur, if I had managed to get
this code into the trunk of subversion.

>
> Thanks!
> S.C. Leung
>

Please accept my apologies for the problem. I shall report back to you by
Monday 6 July 2009.

Regards,
Neil Groves