Hi, I think that your arguments are reasonable. Even if I don't like to extend the number of find/erase/replace functions very much. I'll put it on my todo list, but I cannot promise when it actually be implemented. Reagards, Pavol. gast128 wrote:

Dear all

I was requesting an 'erase_if' a while ago, and now I ran into a 'replace_if' problem. So after spendig 2 hours in the documentation, I finally found on www ('[string_algo] replace repeated char with single instance?') that one should use the 'find_format_all':

boost::find_format_all(str, boost::token_finder(boost::is_any_of("ab")), boost::const_formatter("c"));

But wouldn't it be better to make a 'replace_if' shortcut solely for the purpose of documentation reasons:

boost::replace_all_if(str, boost::is_any_of("ab"), "c");

I think that most people find the last line easier to read and comprehend than its (more powerful) 'find_format' cousin. The string_algo library is nice but I get lost more than once. Especially find, replace, erease with predicates are often used by us. However direct use seems not possible.

wkr, me

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