OK, I found it. Short answer: for some reason running this code from within the context of a Qt console app breaks it. Now let me respond to your questions: I using VC 2008 with boost 1.44. I am also compiling from within the Qt environment. I did not show all of the code because it wouldn't compile unless you were working with qt. The real code looked like: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { QCoreApplication a(argc, argv); // read my_input.txt and save uppercase version of text into datastore.txt // code shown in previous email redacted return a.exec(); } Commenting-out the line with QCoreApplication and replacing the return statement with "return 0" made it work. I don't yet understand the problem but at least I now know that both the example works and I didn't bungle it. Many thanks for taking the time to look at my problem. johnh On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:48 PM, eg <egoots@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/8/2011 1:22 PM, John Hendrix wrote:
Hi all,
the following, as far as I can tell, is exactly the same "Ordinary
OutputFilter" example shown at (http://tinyurl.com/45bur3o)
...
I am obviously doing not adding the toupper_filter into the filter chain correctly. Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong?
Not sure what you are doing... but your code works for me on Windows with VS2008 using Boost 1.45.
My_input.txt contained 1 line as follows: ThIs Is A tEsT 123!
After running, datastore.txt contained: THIS IS A TEST 123!
What version of boost, what compiler, what input and output do you get?
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