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Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Anton Polukhin Alekseevic
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Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Anton Polukhin Alekseevic

Overview of this book

If you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you. Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string, numbers to numbers and more. Managing resources will become a piece of cake. You’ll see what kind of work can be done at compile time and what Boost containers can do. You will learn everything for the development of high quality fast and portable applications. Write a program once and then you can use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android operating systems. From manipulating images to graphs, directories, timers, files, networking – everyone will find an interesting topic. Be sure that knowledge from this book won’t get outdated, as more and more Boost libraries become part of the C++ Standard.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


Boost is a collection of C++ libraries. Each library has been reviewed by many professional programmers before being accepted by Boost. Libraries are tested on multiple platforms using many compilers and many C++ standard library implementations. While using Boost, you can be sure that you are using one of the most portable, fast, and reliable solutions that is distributed under a license suitable for commercial and open source projects.

Many parts of Boost have been included into C++11, C++14, and C++17. Furthermore, Boost libraries will be included in the next standard of C++. You will find C++ standard-specific notes in each recipe of this book.

Without a long introduction, let's get started!

In this chapter, we will see some recipes for everyday use. We'll see how to get configuration options from different sources and what can be cooked up using some of the data types introduced by Boost library authors.