Hi, Franciois Barel:
Spirit2 already provides such functionality:
Ah, I missed that, thanks. That said... Rob Stewart:
I'm not entirely comfortable with "match." What about "literal" or "exactly?"
Yes, "literal" would be fine to me, though I feel that people might not exactly understand what "exactly" means :)
That's a lot of noise and the syntax is non-obvious for the purpose at hand.
I agree. It may be more powerful, but I think there is a benefit to keeping it simple. Scott McMurray:
In fact, can someone come up with a good use case for needing more than just character and string literals? I feel like anything more than that might be better left to spirit/regex/whatever.
That is my opinion as well. What I have in mind really is a direct supplement to meet what the scanf() family can do with format strings that include more than just the format specifiers, but I am not sure if turning this into an input stream version of Boost.Format is a good idea, so I shall stick with proposing a manipulator for now. Regards, Eugene Wee