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The abysmal support in the C and C++ standard libraries for string handling has driven many programmers to other languages like Perl and Python. Boost aims to reverse that trend. Libraries such as Boost.Lexical_cast, Boost.String_algo, Boost.Regex, Boost.Xpressive and Boost.Spirit are invaluable tools for slicing and dicing strings. If your task is as simple as turning an integer into a string, or as complicated as developing a parser generator for a new scripting language, Boost has a library that can help. In addition to covering all the afore mentioned libraries from a user's perspective, we'll also look at how Boost can be used to get more out of the standard IOstreams, and discover some hidden gems in Boost for dealing with Unicode.
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Eric is an independent software consultant currently working with Dave Abrahams and Boost Consulting. He is a former employee of Microsoft Research and Visual C++, and his writings about C++ have been published in the C/C++ User's Journal and MSDN Magazine. When he's not writing C++ for money, Eric has been known to write C++ for fun.
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