Learning Boost C++ libraries : solve practical programming problems using powerful, portable, and expressive libraries from Boost / / Arindam Mukherjee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511471303321
• Autore: Mukherjee Arindam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, [England] ; ; Mumbai, [India] : , : Packt Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78355-122-4
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (558 p.)
• Collana: Community Experience Distilled
• Disciplina: 005.13/3; 005.133
• Soggetti: C++ (Computer program language); Computer software - Development; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing Boost; How it all started; What is Boost?; Getting started with Boost libraries; Necessary software; Linux toolchain; Windows toolchain; Obtaining and building Boost libraries; Planning your Boost sandbox; Library naming conventions; Library name components; Library name layouts; Installing a Boost binary distribution; Building and installing the Boost libraries from source; Using Boost libraries in your projects; Linking against Boost libraries on Linux; Linking against Boost libraries on WindowsBuilding the code listings in this book; CMake; Code examples; Self-test questions; Summary; Chapter 2: The First Brush with Boost's Utilities; Simple data structures; Boost.Optional; Accessing values stored in boost::optional; get_value_or; Boost.Optional versus pointers; Boost.Tuple; Creating tuples; Accessing tuple elements; Comparing tuples; Writing generic code using tuples; Working with heterogeneous values; Boost.Variant; Accessing values in a variant; Defining recursive variants; Boost.Any; Boost.Conversion; lexical_cast; Handling command-line argumentsDesigning command-line options; The diff command - a case study; Using Boost.Program_Options; Parsing positional parameters; Multiple option values; Other utilities and compile-time checks; BOOST_CURRENT_FUNCTION; Boost.Swap; Compile-time asserts; Diagnostics using preprocessor macros; Self-test questions; Summary; References; Chapter 3: Memory Management and Exception Safety; Dynamic memory allocation and exception safety; Exception safety and RAII; Smart pointers; Unique ownership semantics; boost::scoped_ptr; boost::scoped_array; std::unique_ptr; Shared ownership semanticsboost::shared_ptr and std::shared_ptr; Intrusive smart pointers - boost::intrusive_ptr; shared_array; Managing non-memory resources using smart pointers; Self-test questions; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Working with Strings; Text processing with Boost String Algorithms library; Using Boost String Algorithms; Find algorithms; Case-conversion and trimming algorithms; The replace and erase algorithms; The split and join algorithms; Splitting text using the Boost Tokenizer library; Tokenizing based on separators; Tokenizing records with fields containing metacharactersTokenizing records with fixed-length fields; Writing your own tokenizer functions; Regular expressions using Boost.Regex; Regular expression syntax; Atoms; Quantifiers; Character classes; Anchors; Sub-expressions; Disjunctions; Using Boost.Regex to parse regular expressions; Matching text; Searching text; Tokenizing text using regex; Replacing text; Self-test questions; Summary; Chapter 5: Effective Data Structures beyond STL; Boost Container library; Move-awareness and in-place construction; Nonstandard containers; Flat associative containers
• Sommario/riassunto: If you are a C++ programmer who has never used Boost libraries before, this book will get you up-to-speed with using them. Whether you are developing new C++ software or maintaining existing code written using Boost libraries, this hands-on introduction will help you decide on the right library and techniques to solve your practical programming problems.