Re: Where did OMANIP and IOMANIP go in VS C++ 2003, and what to use instead?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:41:24 -0400
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"Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> wrote in message
news:Oaaa1mi6HHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl

I used to use this in VC6 and it worked:

typedef struct
{
const TCHAR *m_pSeparator, *m_pName;
} SeparatorWithNameT;
IOMANIPdeclare( SeparatorWithNameT );
ostream& fp( ostream& o, SeparatorWithNameT pair );
OMANIP(SeparatorWithNameT) SepWithName( const TCHAR *pSep, const TCHAR
*pName );

But under Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 69462-270-0000007-18335 I get:
   h:\Husky\HostPC\Loader\Mark1\Mark1\Utils.hpp(137) : error C2146:
syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'SepWithName'

Where did OMANIP (and IOMANIP, for that matter) go, and what is the
new solution?


This is how you define your own manipulators:

struct SeparatorWithNameT{
    const TCHAR *m_pSeparator, *m_pName;
} SeparatorWithNameT;

basic_ostream<TCHAR>& operator<<(
        basic_ostream<TCHAR>& os, const SeparatorWithNameT& sep) {
    return os << sep.m_pSeparator << sep.m_pName;
}

SeparatorWithNameT SepWithName(
        const TCHAR *pSep, const TCHAR *pName) {
    SeparatorWithNameT sep = {pSep, pName};
    return sep;
}

cout << "Hello" << SepWithName(", ", "Bill") << endl;

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