Hi,

Is this a problem with bind on MSVC 7.1, or have I just forgotton how to use it/what it can do.

You're not using bind correctly. See below.

#include <iostream> #include <string> #include

int my_function(std::string const& value) { return static_cast<int>(value.length()); }

int main() { std::string my_string("hello world!"); std::cout << boost::bind<int>(_1, my_string)(my_function); }

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