I'm at a point with this program that I need to do a lot of work with strings. This would be so much simpler to do in Python, however I don't want the entire program written in Python. How could I use functions from a Python script in C++?
WildBamaBoy 19 Junior Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
what is it that you want to do with strings? There's possibly an equivalent in c++.
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
If you are doing a lot of work with strings (I assume parsing), here are some general options to consider (from simplest to most powerful):
- stringstream (basic string operations, like an I/O stream)
- Boost.Regex (Regular expressions)
- Boost.Tokenizer (splitting strings into tokens and manipulating them)
- Boost.Spirit (LL Parser in EBNF grammars)
- Boost.Xpressive (recursive context-free grammars and expression templates)
If you have a more specific task (like parsing XML), then it is very likely that specific libraries exist in C++ that can do what you want.
Other than that, I don't really know how to use Python in C++ (I'm guessing you can just launch Python scripts, but that's very basic and not very nice).
WildBamaBoy 19 Junior Poster
I've stopped this project for now but I'll have a look at the Boost.Tokenizer whenever I start back. Thank you.
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