Re: [boost] htmlspecialchars and urlencode?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

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Hi,

Does Boost have functions like htmlspecialchars and urlencode (from PHP)? If not, I think they'd make a nice addition to the string algorithm lib.

There is XML character decorator in Boost.Log. It is based on a common tool called pattern_replacer which can be used as a function (see https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/master/include/boost/log/expressions/fo...).

Does it do multiple passes over the input and update the string in-place? Doesn't look like a good idea.

In Boost.StringAlgo there are a number of replace algorithms which can be used for this.

Which one would be best? -- Olaf