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Boost 1.58.0 Library Documentation - Input/Output

Input/Output

Asio

Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs.

Author(s)
Chris Kohlhoff
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output
Assign

Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier.

Author(s)
Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Input/Output
Endian

Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.58.0
Categories
Input/Output, Math and numerics
Format

The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences: format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types; 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 argument feeding operator%.

Author(s)
Samuel Krempp
First Release
1.29.0
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
IO State Savers

The I/O sub-library of Boost helps segregate the large number of Boost headers. This sub-library should contain various items to use with/for the standard I/O library.

Author(s)
Daryle Walker
First Release
1.28.0
Categories
Input/Output
Iostreams

Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters.

Author(s)
Jonathan Turkanis
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Input/Output, String and text processing
Program Options

The program_options library allows program developers to obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and config file.

Author(s)
Vladimir Prus
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Input/Output
Serialization

Serialization for persistence and marshalling.

Author(s)
Robert Ramey
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Input/Output