C++ All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

Boosting up a Step

In This Chapter

Using RegEx to parse strings

Using Tokenizer to break strings into tokens

Converting numbers to other data types

Using Foreach to create improved loops

Using Filesystem to access the operating system

The Boost library is vast. It’s doubtful that a typical developer will ever use everything that Boost has to offer. Of course, before you can pick and choose what you want to use, you need to know it exists. Browsing through the help file can reveal classes that you need to add to your toolkit to produce good applications. This chapter helps by taking you on a whirlwind tour of the major Boost categories. Don’t expect this chapter to discuss everything — Boost is simply too large for that. If you want to see a list of what Boost has to offer, check out

• All classes in alphabetical order: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0
• Categorized list: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0?view=categorized

In addition to reviewing the examples in this ...