AMDG V S P wrote:

I developed a class cmoney_t and would like to use it uniformly with all the other datatypes I am using

One of the things I would like to use is boost::lexical_cast<std::string> (const cmoney_t& in)

However, when I simply just try to specialize the tempalte function lexical_cast

it tells me that I cannot define that function within my namepsace (I have my own namespace)

so wanted to know if there is a way to extend lexical_cast to support my custom classes

Lexical cast uses the standard stream operators. If you define std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const cmoney_t&); then lexical_cast should work. In Christ, Steven Watanabe