Re: [boost] lexical_cast error with double?

Jonathan Franklin wrote:

FWIW, sending the double value to std::cout works as expected: double d = 72.35; std::string s = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(d); printf("%s\n", s.c_str()); // prints 72.34999999999999 std::cout << d << std::endl; // prints 72.35

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