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  34   <h1>Boost Format library</h1>
  35
  36   <p>The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according
  37   to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences
  38   :<br></p>
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  40   <ul>
  41     <li>format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely
  42     type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types.</li>
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  44     <li>The ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed
  45     context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is
  46     replaced by successive calls to an <i>argument feeding</i>
  47     <b>operator%</b></li>
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  50   <p><br>
  51   You can find more Details in :</p>
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  53   <ul>
  54     <li><a href="doc/format.html">Documentation</a> (HTML).</li>
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  56     <li>Headers
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  58       <ul>
  59         <li><a href="../../boost/format.hpp">format.hpp</a> : user
  60         frontend.</li>
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  62         <li><a href="../../boost/format/format_fwd.hpp">format_fwd.hpp</a> :
  63         user forward declarations.</li>
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  65         <li><a href=
  66         "../../boost/format/format_class.hpp">format_class.hpp</a> : the
  67         class interface</li>
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  69         <li><a href=
  70         "../../boost/format/format_implementation.hpp">format_implementation.hpp</a>:
  71         implementation of the member functions</li>
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  73         <li><a href="../../boost/format/feed_args.hpp">feed_args.hpp</a> :
  74         argument feeding helper functions</li>
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  76         <li><a href="../../boost/format/free_funcs.hpp">free_funcs.hpp</a> :
  77         free functions definitions</li>
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  79         <li><a href="../../boost/format/parsing.hpp">parsing.hpp</a> : code
  80         for parsing format-strings</li>
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  82         <li><a href="../../boost/format/group.hpp">group.hpp</a> : auxiliary
  83         struct used to group arguments and manipulators</li>
  84
  85         <li><a href="../../boost/format/exceptions.hpp">exceptions.hpp</a> :
  86         exceptions used by the library</li>
  87
  88         <li><a href="../../boost/format/internals.hpp">internals.hpp</a> :
  89         auxiliary structs stream_format_state and format_item</li>
  90       </ul>
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  93     <li>Sample programs
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  95       <ul>
  96         <li>The program <a href=
  97         "./example/sample_formats.cpp">sample_formats.cpp</a> demonstrates
  98         simple uses of <b>format</b>.</li>
  99
 100         <li><a href=
 101         "./example/sample_new_features.cpp">sample_new_features.cpp</a>
 102         illustrates the few formatting features that were added to printf's
 103         syntax such as simple positional directives, centered alignment, and
 104         'tabulations'.</li>
 105
 106         <li><a href="./example/sample_advanced.cpp">sample_advanced.cpp</a>
 107         demonstrates uses of advanced features, like reusing, and modifying,
 108         format objects, etc..</li>
 109
 110         <li>And <a href=
 111         "./example/sample_userType.cpp">sample_userType.cpp</a> shows the
 112         behaviour of the <b>format</b> library on user-defined types.</li>
 113       </ul>
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 123   <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->02 December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38510" --></p>
 124
 125   <p><i>Copyright &copy; 2003 Samuel Krempp</i></p>
 126
 127   <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
 128   accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or
 129   copy at <a href=
 130   "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p>
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