Re: Converting a substring to Integer
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 9, 3:54 am, Reetesh Mukul <reetesh.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 9, 12:05 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
I think the Pred is a kind of Filter.
Pred is a predicate. At least in my examples, but I'm pretty
sure that that is what Daniel meant it to be as well.
But a state-full predicate can store earlier characters and thus do any
backtracking that may be required.
struct Pred {
char last;
public:
Pred():last(0) { }
bool operator()( char current ) {
if ( last == ',' && current == ' ' )
result = true;
last = current;
}
};
The the above class and the ignore function I posited earlier, one could
search for ", " as the separator.
Granted, it can't put back any characters, but the idea is to scan
through the separator to the beginning of the next field, so that isn't
an issue.
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