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| 34 | <h1>Boost Format library</h1> |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | <p>The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according |
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| 37 | to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences |
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| 38 | :<br></p> |
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| 40 | <ul> |
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| 41 | <li>format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely |
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| 42 | type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types.</li> |
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| 44 | <li>The ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed |
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| 45 | context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is |
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| 46 | replaced by successive calls to an <i>argument feeding</i> |
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| 47 | <b>operator%</b></li> |
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| 50 | <p><br> |
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| 51 | You can find more Details in :</p> |
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| 54 | <li><a href="doc/format.html">Documentation</a> (HTML).</li> |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | <li>Headers |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <ul> |
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| 59 | <li><a href="../../boost/format.hpp">format.hpp</a> : user |
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| 60 | frontend.</li> |
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| 62 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/format_fwd.hpp">format_fwd.hpp</a> : |
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| 63 | user forward declarations.</li> |
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| 65 | <li><a href= |
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| 66 | "../../boost/format/format_class.hpp">format_class.hpp</a> : the |
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| 67 | class interface</li> |
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| 69 | <li><a href= |
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| 70 | "../../boost/format/format_implementation.hpp">format_implementation.hpp</a>: |
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| 71 | implementation of the member functions</li> |
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| 73 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/feed_args.hpp">feed_args.hpp</a> : |
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| 74 | argument feeding helper functions</li> |
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| 76 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/free_funcs.hpp">free_funcs.hpp</a> : |
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| 77 | free functions definitions</li> |
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| 79 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/parsing.hpp">parsing.hpp</a> : code |
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| 80 | for parsing format-strings</li> |
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| 82 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/group.hpp">group.hpp</a> : auxiliary |
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| 83 | struct used to group arguments and manipulators</li> |
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| 85 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/exceptions.hpp">exceptions.hpp</a> : |
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| 86 | exceptions used by the library</li> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | <li><a href="../../boost/format/internals.hpp">internals.hpp</a> : |
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| 89 | auxiliary structs stream_format_state and format_item</li> |
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| 90 | </ul> |
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| 91 | </li> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | <li>Sample programs |
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| 95 | <ul> |
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| 96 | <li>The program <a href= |
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| 97 | "./example/sample_formats.cpp">sample_formats.cpp</a> demonstrates |
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| 98 | simple uses of <b>format</b>.</li> |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | <li><a href= |
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| 101 | "./example/sample_new_features.cpp">sample_new_features.cpp</a> |
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| 102 | illustrates the few formatting features that were added to printf's |
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| 103 | syntax such as simple positional directives, centered alignment, and |
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| 104 | 'tabulations'.</li> |
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| 106 | <li><a href="./example/sample_advanced.cpp">sample_advanced.cpp</a> |
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| 107 | demonstrates uses of advanced features, like reusing, and modifying, |
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| 108 | format objects, etc..</li> |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | <li>And <a href= |
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| 111 | "./example/sample_userType.cpp">sample_userType.cpp</a> shows the |
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| 112 | behaviour of the <b>format</b> library on user-defined types.</li> |
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| 113 | </ul> |
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| 114 | </li> |
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| 122 | <p>Revised |
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| 123 | <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->02 December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38510" --></p> |
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| 125 | <p><i>Copyright © 2003 Samuel Krempp</i></p> |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See |
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| 128 | accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or |
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| 129 | copy at <a href= |
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