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<h1>Boost Format library</h1>
<p>The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according
to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences
:<br></p>
<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>
</ul>
<p><br>
You can find more Details in :</p>
<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>
</ul>
</li>
<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>
</li>
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<p>Revised
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<p><i>Copyright © 2003 Samuel Krempp</i></p>
<p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or
copy at <a href=
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