On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:54:32 +0300 (MSK), Alexander Konovalenko wrote
BTW, there is a major rewrite of I/O that will be in 1.33 that will allow you to define format strings for parsing and output via a new facet.
Is it in the CVS already? What's your estimate of the release date?
Much of the code is already in CVS, but the 'interfaces' (eg: operator>> and operator<<) are not hooked up. If all goes well I will check in another round in the next week or so that converts over, but don't expect that it will be ready for prime time for a couple months at least. We have a bunch of stuff for local_time we are trying to wrap up as well... In short you can specify the format for input or output via a string using a format string: "%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S%F" for a form like: 2004-Oct-20 19:02:57.000002999 So this will give complete control over input and output. If you look at libs/date_time/gregorian/testformat_date_parser.cpp and libs/date_time/posix_time/testtime_facet.cpp you can see more examples of how the guts of the new design works. Jeff