Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval <at> yahoo.com> writes:
After thinking about it some more, perhaps what I'm complaining about is something that is general in the locale/facet system. Maybe what's really bothering me is that once a certain setting is considered as "locale related", such as the decimal separator, it can only be configured using the locale/facet over-complicated way. But sometimes I don't want to use the "US", "German" or any other local setting for a decimal separator - I want to use *my* decimal separator. I souldn'd be forced to use a locale in such cases, IMO. IOW, I wish *all* settings would be configurable using manipulators (or an equivalent convenient way), and yes, that includes a decimal separator manipulator...
I use a set of facet helper classes. ss.imbue(add_facet(locale(), new number_format<char>(":"))); ss << 1.23; // output "1:23" ss.imbue(add_facet(locale::classic(), new number_format<char>(':', '_', "43"))); ss << 12345678.9; // output "1_234_5678:9" ss.imbue(add_facet(locale(), new stream_delimiter<char>(";\t"))); ss.str("123;String with spaces\t456"); int n1, n2; string s1; ss >> n1 >> s1 >> n2; // n1=123, n2=456, s1="String with spaces"