Re: Converting a substring to Integer

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:05:21 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On Feb 8, 12:25 pm, "Daniel T." <danie...@earthlink.net> wrote:

James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:


    [...]

Probably because that's not its role. But it's an interesting
suggestion---it should be possible to define a manipulator which
skips using a predicate.


   template < typename Pred >
istream& ignore( istream& s, Pred pred )
{
   char c = 0;
   while ( s.get( c ) && pred( c ) )
   { }
}


Which will extract one character too many. And you need either
something like:

    template< typename Pred > std::istream& ignore( istream& s ) ;

for the interface, or the function should return some special
type, e.g.:

    template< typename Pred >
    Ignorer< Pred >
    ignore( Pred p )
    {
        return Ignorer< Pred >( p ) ;
    }

with the actual work being done in the >> operator of Ignorer<
Pred >.

More useful, probably, would be a manipulator which skips
using a regular expression.


Using a state-full predicate in the above would probably work
for that.


Not for the extended regular expressions of Boost. Those
require backtracking, and there's practically no way to
implement backtracking.

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