On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

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

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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.

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

Which one would be best?

Somebody? -- Olaf

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:

On 18/02/2015 12:57, 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.

htmlspecialchars is just replacing < with <, > with > and & with & (optionally " with " and ' with ' as well).

It's a trivial application of the replace algorithm to the world of HTML and XML. I'm not sure the string algorithm lib is the right place for it, maybe an XML lib would be better.

Does Boost have a XML lib? I don't really mind in what lib such a function would be created. -- Olaf