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:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_73_0 - Categorized list:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_73_0?view=categorized
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