1// Copyright Antony Polukhin, 2013-2024.
2
3// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
4// (See the accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt
5// or a copy at <http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt>.)
6
7
8//[lexical_cast_variant_to_long_double
9/*`
10 In this example we'll make a `to_long_double` method that converts value of the Boost.Variant to `long double`.
11*/
12
13#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
14#include <boost/variant.hpp>
15
16struct to_long_double_functor: boost::static_visitor<long double> {
17 template <class T>
18 long double operator()(const T& v) const {
19 // Lexical cast has many optimizations including optimizations for situations that usually
20 // occur in generic programming, like std::string to std::string or arithmetic type to arithmetic type conversion.
21 return boost::lexical_cast<long double>(v);
22 }
23};
24
25// Throws `boost::bad_lexical_cast` if value of the variant is not convertible to `long double`
26template <class Variant>
27long double to_long_double(const Variant& v) {
28 return boost::apply_visitor(to_long_double_functor(), v);
29}
30
31int main() {
32 boost::variant<char, int, std::string> v1('0'), v2("10.0001"), v3(1);
33
34 const long double sum = to_long_double(v: v1) + to_long_double(v: v2) + to_long_double(v: v3);
35 if (11 < sum && sum < 11.1) {
36 return 0; // OK, as expected
37 };
38
39 return 1; // FAIL
40}
41
42//] [/lexical_cast_variant_to_long_double]
43

source code of boost/libs/lexical_cast/example/variant_to_long_double.cpp