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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:59:01+00:00

When I discovered boost::lexical_cast I thought to myself why didn’t I know about this

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When I discovered boost::lexical_cast I thought to myself ‘why didn’t I know about this sooner!’ – I hated having to write code like 

stringstream ss; ss << anIntVal; mystring = ss.str();

Now I write

mystring = boost::lexical_cast<string>(anIntVal);

Yesterday, on stackoverflow, I came across boost split (another gem that will save me writing code).

string stringtobesplit = 'AA/BB-CC') vector<string> tokens;  boost::split(tokens, stringtobesplit, boost::is_any_of('/-'));  // tokens now holds 3 items: AA BB CC

I am going to start looking through boost documentation looking for other functions that I will be able to use regularly, but I feel that it will be very easy to miss things.

What boost functions do you use most / would hate not to have?

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  1. Probably the most used part of boost for me is boost::shared_ptr.

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