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<h1><img border="0" src="../../boost.png" align="center" width="277" height="86">Boost
Conversion Library</h1>
<p>The Conversion Library improves program safety and clarity by performing
otherwise messy conversions. It includes cast-style function templates designed to complement the C++
Standard's built-in casts.</p>
<p>To reduce coupling, particularly to standard library IOStreams, the Boost
Conversion Library is
supplied by several headers:</p>
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<li>The <a href="cast.htm">boost/cast</a> header provides <b>polymorphic_cast<></b>
and <b>polymorphic_downcast<></b> to perform safe casting between
polymorphic types.<br>
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<li>The <a href="lexical_cast.htm">boost/lexical_cast</a> header provides <b>lexical_cast<></b>
general literal text conversions, such as an <code>int</code> represented as
a <code>string</code>, or vice-versa.</li>
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<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->June 23, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="30348" -->
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