Alternative to boost::lexical_cast

Question

I\'m taking a part in a challenge, and just to cut to the point, in one of places in my program I need to convert string to an integer. I\'ve tried boost::lexical_cast but u

Answer 1

For the Google Summer of Code I'm working on a new Boost library to tackle this; boost::coerce which can be found over here. The backend builds upon boost::spirit providing you all of its advantages (speed in particular) with a much simpler interface:

int i = boost::coerce::as("23");

or

std::string s = boost::coerce::as(23);

Note that it is still a work in progress, but should be sufficiently stable in practice. If any problems arise, please let me know.