On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:04:06 +0100, Marcin Kalicinski wrote
Property tree library revision 5 (review version) is now in the boost vault. Documentation can be viewed online at http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree
I took a quick look this morning -- it's very slick. The interface is clean and obvious -- I especially like the get_optional. The focus on supporting multiple external formats while maintaining a common internal interface is a very smart design decision. I'll definately be using this class :-) A couple things I discovered: - Couldn't get find to work - Docs Need an example of using the iterators (no example either) - If you read an ini file with comments and then write it back they are lost - Indenting and other attributes of the ini file are also lost. Only serious thing is I can't seem to get 'find' to work. ptree pt; read_ini("test.ini", pt); ptree::const_iterator ci = pt.find("value2"); if (ci != pt.end()) { std::cout << ci->second.data() << std::endl; } //test.ini [User Data] ; This is a comment value1 = v1 value2 = v2 date = 2006-Apr-18 I tried various keys in the find -- all returned null iterator. One really interesting extension for this would be a combination with Boost.Filesystem for reading file properties. You could use filesystem to populate the tree and then you'd have a really handy data structure for accessing file properties. Jeff