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| <h1>Boost Format library</h1> |
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| <p>The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according |
| to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences |
| :<br></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely |
| type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types.</li> |
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| <li>The ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed |
| context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is |
| replaced by successive calls to an <i>argument feeding</i> |
| <b>operator%</b></li> |
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| You can find more Details in :</p> |
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| <li><a href="doc/format.html">Documentation</a> (HTML).</li> |
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| <li>Headers |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="../../boost/format.hpp">format.hpp</a> : user |
| frontend.</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/format_fwd.hpp">format_fwd.hpp</a> : |
| user forward declarations.</li> |
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| <li><a href= |
| "../../boost/format/format_class.hpp">format_class.hpp</a> : the |
| class interface</li> |
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| <li><a href= |
| "../../boost/format/format_implementation.hpp">format_implementation.hpp</a>: |
| implementation of the member functions</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/feed_args.hpp">feed_args.hpp</a> : |
| argument feeding helper functions</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/free_funcs.hpp">free_funcs.hpp</a> : |
| free functions definitions</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/parsing.hpp">parsing.hpp</a> : code |
| for parsing format-strings</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/group.hpp">group.hpp</a> : auxiliary |
| struct used to group arguments and manipulators</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/exceptions.hpp">exceptions.hpp</a> : |
| exceptions used by the library</li> |
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| <li><a href="../../boost/format/internals.hpp">internals.hpp</a> : |
| auxiliary structs stream_format_state and format_item</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <li>Sample programs |
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| <ul> |
| <li>The program <a href= |
| "./example/sample_formats.cpp">sample_formats.cpp</a> demonstrates |
| simple uses of <b>format</b>.</li> |
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| <li><a href= |
| "./example/sample_new_features.cpp">sample_new_features.cpp</a> |
| illustrates the few formatting features that were added to printf's |
| syntax such as simple positional directives, centered alignment, and |
| 'tabulations'.</li> |
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| <li><a href="./example/sample_advanced.cpp">sample_advanced.cpp</a> |
| demonstrates uses of advanced features, like reusing, and modifying, |
| format objects, etc..</li> |
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| <li>And <a href= |
| "./example/sample_userType.cpp">sample_userType.cpp</a> shows the |
| behaviour of the <b>format</b> library on user-defined types.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Revised |
| <!--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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| <p><i>Copyright © 2003 Samuel Krempp</i></p> |
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| <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See |
| accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or |
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| "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p> |
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