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<h1 align="center">&quot;Quoted&quot;
I/O Manipulators<br>
for Strings</h1>
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<p align="center"><b>&quot;Quoted&quot;
I/O Manipulators
for Strings are not yet accepted into Boost as public components. Thus the
header file is currently located in &lt;boost/io/detail/quoted_manip.hpp&gt;</b></td>
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>C++ Standard library stream I/O for strings that contain embedded spaces
can produce unexpected results. For example,</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>std::stringstream ss;
std::string original = &quot;fooled you&quot;;
std::string round_trip;
ss &lt;&lt; original;
ss &gt;&gt; round_trip;
std::cout &lt;&lt; original; // outputs: fooled you
std::cout &lt;&lt; round_trip; // outputs: fooled
assert(original == round_trip); // assert will fire</pre>
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<p>The Boost <code>quoted</code> stream I/O manipulator places delimiters, defaulted
to the double-quote (<code>&quot;</code>), around strings on output, and strips off
the delimiters on input. This ensures strings with embedded spaces round-trip as
desired. For example,</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>std::stringstream ss;
std::string original = &quot;fooled you&quot;;
std::string round_trip;
ss &lt;&lt; quoted(original);
ss &gt;&gt; quoted(round_trip);
std::cout &lt;&lt; quoted(original); // outputs: &quot;fooled you&quot;
std::cout &lt;&lt; round_trip; // outputs: fooled you
assert(original == round_trip); // assert will not fire</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>If the string contains the delimiter character, on output that character will
be preceded by an escape character, as will the escape character itself:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>std::cout &lt;&lt; quoted(&quot;'Jack &amp; Jill'&quot;, '&amp;', '\''); // outputs: '&amp;'Jack &amp;&amp; Jill&amp;''</pre>
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<h2>Header <a href="../../../boost/io/detail/quoted_manip.hpp">&lt;boost/io/quoted_manip.hpp&gt;</a> synopsis</h2>
<pre>namespace boost
{
namespace io
{
// manipulator for const std::basic_string&amp;
template &lt;class Char, class Traits, class Alloc&gt;
<b><i>unspecified-type1</i></b> quoted(const std::basic_string&lt;Char, Traits, Alloc&gt;&amp; string, Char escape='\\', Char delim='\&quot;');
// manipulator for const C-string*
template &lt;class Char&gt;
<b><i>unspecified-type2</i></b> quoted(const Char* string, Char escape='\\', Char delim='\&quot;');
// manipulator for non-const std::basic_string&amp;
template &lt;class Char, class Traits, class Alloc&gt;
<b><i>unspecified-type3</i></b> quoted(std::basic_string&lt;Char, Traits, Alloc&gt;&amp; string, Char escape='\\', Char delim='\&quot;');
}
}</pre>
<p><i><b><code>unspecified_type1</code></b></i>, <i><b><code>unspecified_type2</code></b></i>,
and <i><b><code>unspecified_type3</code></b></i> are implementation supplied
types with implementation supplied <code>operator&lt;&lt;</code>:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>template &lt;class Char, class Traits&gt;
std::basic_ostream&lt;Char, Traits&gt;&amp;
operator&lt;&lt;(std::basic_ostream&lt;Char, Traits&gt;&amp; os, const <i><b><code>unspecified_typeN</code></b></i>&amp; proxy);</pre>
<p><i>Effects:</i> Inserts characters into <code>os</code>:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>delim</code>.</li>
<li>Each character in <code>string</code>. If the character to be output is
equal to <code>escape</code> or <code>delim</code>, as determined by <code>
operator==</code>, first output <code>escape</code>. </li>
<li><code>delim</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p><i>Remarks:</i> <code>string</code>, <code>escape</code>, and <code>delim</code>
have the type and value of the corresponding arguments of the call to the <code>
quoted</code> function that constructed <code>proxy</code>.</p>
<p><i>Returns:</i> <code>os</code>. </p>
</blockquote>
<p><i><b><code>unspecified_type3</code></b></i> is an implementation supplied
type with an implementation supplied <code>operator&gt;&gt;</code>:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>template &lt;class Char, class Traits&gt;
std::basic_istream&lt;Char, Traits&gt;&amp;
operator&gt;&gt;(std::basic_istream&lt;Char, Traits&gt;&amp; is, const <i><b><code>unspecified_type3</code></b></i>&amp; proxy);</pre>
<p><i>Effects:</i> Extracts characters from <code>os</code>:</p>
<ul>
<li>If the first character extracted is equal to delim, as determined by
<code>operator==</code>, then:<ul>
<li>Turn off the <code>skipws</code> flag.</li>
<li><code>string.clear()</code></li>
<li>Until an unescaped <code>delim</code> character is reached or <code>
is.not_good()</code>, extract
characters from <code>os</code> and append them to <code>string</code>,
except that if an <code>escape</code> is reached, ignore it and append the
next character to <code>string</code>.</li>
<li>Discard the final <code>delim</code> character.</li>
<li>Restore the <code>skipws</code> flag to its original value.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Otherwise, <code>os &gt;&gt; string</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p><i>Remarks:</i> <code>string</code>, <code>escape</code>, and <code>delim</code>
have the type and value of the corresponding arguments of the call to the <code>
quoted</code> function that constructed <code>proxy</code>.</p>
<p><i>Returns:</i> <code>is</code>. </p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>The <code>quoted()</code> stream manipulator emerged from discussions on the
Boost developers mailing list. Participants included Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart,
Alexander Lamaison, Eric Niebler, Vicente Botet, Andrey Semashev, Phil Richards,
and Rob Murray. Eric Niebler's suggestions provided the basis for the name and
form of the templates. </p>
<hr>
<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010</p>
<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See
<a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a></p>
<p>Revised
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