Re: [Boost-users] [lexical_cast] Canonical representation for numbers?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [lexical_cast] Canonical representation for numbers?
From: Francesco Biscani (bluescarni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-21 06:28:25

Thanks all for the feedback!

I was hoping I could exploit lexical_cast's knowledge of floating
point types without having to write specific code, but it seems this
is not the case.

Didn't know about Boost.Format before, and I had no idea Spirit could
be used for this. I'm going to start digging into the docs.

Cheers,

  Francesco.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Bryce Lelbach aka wash
<admin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On 09/20/2010 12:56 PM, Francesco Biscani wrote:
>> I'm asking because I need to pass a lexical representation of integers
>> and floats to the constructors of some 3rd party class that expects as
>> input strings containing a certain representation of numbers. E.g., a
>> float represented as string must be either in decimal or scientific
>> notation, with "." as separator, "e" or "E" preceding the exponent,
>> leading sign only in case of negative numbers and so on.
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>
> Have you looked into Boost.Spirit?
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