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<h1>Boost Format library</h1>
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The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string,
as does printf, but with two major differences :
<br>
<ul>
<li>format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and
naturally supports all user-defined types.</li>
<li>The ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed context of format,
and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is replaced by successive calls to an
<i>argument feeding</i> <b>operator%</b>
</li>
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You can find more Details in :
<ul>
<li><a href="doc/format.html">Documentation</a> (HTML).</li>
<li>Headers <ul>
<li><a href="../../boost/format.hpp">format.hpp</a> : user frontend.</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/format_fwd.hpp">format_fwd.hpp</a>
: user forward declarations.</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/format_class.hpp">
format_class.hpp</a> : the class interface</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/format_implementation.hpp">
format_implementation.hpp</a>: implementation of the member functions</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/feed_args.hpp">feed_args.hpp</a>
: argument feeding helper functions</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/free_funcs.hpp">free_funcs.hpp</a>
: free functions definitions</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/parsing.hpp">parsing.hpp</a>
: code for parsing format-strings</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/group.hpp">group.hpp</a>
: auxiliary struct used to group arguments and manipulators</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/exceptions.hpp">exceptions.hpp</a>
: exceptions used by the library</li>
<li><a href="../../boost/format/internals.hpp">internals.hpp</a>
: auxiliary structs stream_format_state and format_item</li>
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<li> Sample programs <ul>
<li>The program <A href="./example/sample_formats.cpp">sample_formats.cpp</A>
demonstrates simple uses of <B>format</B>. </li>
<li><A href="./example/sample_new_features.cpp">sample_new_features.cpp</A>
illustrates the few formatting features that were added to printf's syntax such
as simple positional directives, centered alignment, and 'tabulations'. </li>
<li><A href="./example/sample_advanced.cpp">sample_advanced.cpp</A>
demonstrates uses of advanced features, like reusing, and modifying,
format objects, etc.. </li>
<li>And <A href="./example/sample_userType.cpp">sample_userType.cpp</A>
shows the behaviour of the <b>format</b> library on user-defined types.</li>
</ul>
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Submitted by <a href="../../people/samuel_krempp.htm">Samuel Krempp</a>.</p>
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