You're reading from Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook Recipes to simplify your application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787282247

Length 438 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Boost

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Anton Polukhin Alekseevic

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Starting to Write Your Application FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing Resources

3. Converting and Casting

4. Compile-Time Tricks

5. Multithreading

6. Manipulating Tasks

7. Manipulating Strings

8. Metaprogramming

9. Containers

10. Gathering Platform and Compiler Information

11. Working with the System

12. Scratching the Tip of the Iceberg

Introduction

Now, that we know some of the basic Boost types, it is time to get to know data-converting functions. In this chapter, we'll see how to convert strings, numbers, pointers, and user-defined types to each other, how to safely cast polymorphic types, and how to write small and big parsers right inside the C++ source files.

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Authors (1)

Anton Polukhin Alekseevic

Antony Polukhin If you are wondering who is Antony Polukhin and could he be trusted to teach about C++ and Boost libraries, then here are some facts: • Antony Polukhin currently represents Russia in international C++ standardization committee • He is the author of multiple Boost libraries and maintains (keeps an eye on) some of the old Boost libraries • He is a perfectionist: all the source codes from the book are auto tested on multiple platforms using different C++ standards. But let's start from the beginning. Antony Polukhin was born in Russia. As a child, he could speak the Russian and Hungarian languages and learned English at school. Since his school days, he was participating in different mathematics, physics, and chemistry competitions and winning them. He was accepted into University twice: once for taking part in a city mathematics competition and again for gaining high score in an University's mathematics and physics challenge. In his university life, there was a year when he did not participate in exams at all: he gained A's in all disciplines by writing highly difficult programs for each teacher. He met his future wife in university and graduated with honors. For more than three years, he worked in a VoIP company developing business logic for a commercial alternative to Asterisc. During those days he started contributing to Boost and became a maintainer of the Boost.LexicalCast library. He also started making translations to Russian for Ubuntu Linux at that time. Today, he works for Yandex Ltd., helps Russian speaking people with C++ standardization proposals, continues to contribute to the open source and to the C++ language in general. You may find his code in Boost libraries such as Any, Conversion, DLL, LexicalCast, Stacktrace, TypeTraits, Variant, and others. He has been happily married for more than five years.

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