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Module Introductions

• cmdline
• flags
• fs
• logging
• memory
• simd
• string
• threading
• tokenizer
• typelist

Build Instructions

Prerequisites and Dependencies

The only mandatory run-time dependencies of cppassist are the STL of the used compiler. Building cppassist from source has several mandatory and optional dependencies:

• CMake 3.0 or higher for building cppassist from source (mandatory for any build from source)
• git for version control and script supporting tasks
• Doxygen 1.8 or higher for generating the documentation on your system
  • graphviz for generating diagrams (optional)

Compile Instructions

For compilation, a C++11 compliant compiler, e.g., GCC 4.8, Clang 3.3, MSVC 2013 Update 3, is required. First, download the source code as archive or via git:

> git clone https://github.com/cginternals/cppassist.git
> cd cppassist

Then, depending on the version of cppassist you want to build, choose the appropriate tag or branch, e.g., for the 1.0.0 release:

> git fetch --tags
> git checkout v1.0.0

The actual compilation can be done using CMake and your favorite compiler and IDE.

For building cppassist CMake via command line can be used (should work on all systems):

First, create a build directory (we do not recommend in-source builds):

> mkdir build
> cd build

Configure cppassist with your preferred or default generator, e.g., for Visual Studio 2015 in x64 use (note: some IDEs have integrated support for CMake projects, e.g., Qt Creator, and allow you to skip the manual project configuration):

> cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"

In order to compile the project, either use you favorite Editor/IDE with the created project or use CMake as follows:

> cmake --build .

cmdline

command line arguments parser for console applications.

#include <cppassist/cmdline/ArgumentParser.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineProgram.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineAction.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineCommand.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineOption.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineSwitch.h>
#include <cppassist/cmdline/CommandLineParameter.h>

// Declare program
CommandLineProgram program(
    "cmdline-example2",
    "cmdline-example2 " CPPASSIST_VERSION,
    "cmdline-example2 demonstrates how to parse (complex) command line options using the CommandLineProgram class in cppassist."
);

// Common options
CommandLineSwitch swVerbose("--verbose", "-v", "Make output more verbose");

// Action: 'help'
CommandLineAction actionHelp("help", "Print help text");
program.add(&actionHelp);

actionHelp.add(&swVerbose);

CommandLineSwitch swHelp("--help", "-h", "Print help text", CommandLineSwitch::NonOptional);
actionHelp.add(&swHelp);

CommandLineParameter paramCommand("command", CommandLineParameter::Optional);
actionHelp.add(&paramCommand);

// Action: 'count'
CommandLineAction actionCount("count", "Count from one number to another");
program.add(&actionCount);

actionCount.add(&swVerbose);

CommandLineCommand cmdCount("count");
actionCount.add(&cmdCount);

CommandLineOption optStep("--increment-by", "-i", "step", "Number that is added per iteration", CommandLineOption::Optional);
actionCount.add(&optStep);

CommandLineParameter paramFrom("from", CommandLineParameter::NonOptional);
actionCount.add(&paramFrom);

CommandLineParameter paramTo("to", CommandLineParameter::NonOptional);
actionCount.add(&paramTo);

// Action: 'cp'
CommandLineAction actionCopy("cp", "Copy files");
program.add(&actionCopy);

actionCopy.add(&swVerbose);

CommandLineCommand cmdCopy("cp");
actionCopy.add(&cmdCopy);

CommandLineParameter paramSrc("path", CommandLineParameter::NonOptional);
actionCopy.add(&paramSrc);

actionCopy.setOptionalParametersAllowed(true);
actionCopy.setOptionalParameterName("path");

// Parse command line
program.parse(argc, argv);

// Check if a valid action has been selected
if (program.selectedAction() && !program.hasErrors())
{
    // Execute 'help'
    if (program.selectedAction() == &actionHelp)
    {
    }

    // Execute 'count'
    else if (program.selectedAction() == &actionCount)
    {
    }

    // Execute 'cp'
    else if (program.selectedAction() == &actionCopy)
    {
    }

    // Exit with success
    exit(0);
}

// Print help
program.print(program.help(program.selectedAction()));

flags

Flags type to help using enums as flags.

#include <cppassist/flags/Flags.h>

enum class MyEnum : unsigned int {
    Value1 = 1,
    Value2 = 2,
    Value3 = 4
};

const auto f = cppassist::makeFlags(MyEnum::Value1) | MyEnum::Value2 & MyEnum::Value3;

fs

The fs module provides classes to access raw files and their key-value structured header information.

#include <cppassist/fs/DescriptiveRawFile.h>

const auto file = cppassist::DescriptiveRawFile();
file.load("testfile.raw", true);

// access raw file contents (starting after header)
file.data();

// access string properties from header
file.stringProperty("author");

// access integer properties from header
file.intProperty("width");

// access floating point properties from header
file.doubleProperty("scaleFactor");

logging

logging provides stream like logging functionality with customizable outputs (default output is to the console).

#include <cppassist/logging/logging.h>

cppassist::setVerbosityLevel(LogMessage::Debug + 2);

cppassist::critical() << "A normal critical message.";
cppassist::error() << "A normal error message.";
cppassist::warning() << "A normal warning message.";
cppassist::info() << "A normal info message.";
cppassist::debug() << "A normal debug message.";
cppassist::debug(1) << "Another debug message.";

cppassist::info("A") << "Info message from context A";
cppassist::warning("B") << "Warning from context B";
cppassist::critical("C") << "Critical message from context C";

memory

Low-level memory management helpers.

make_unique.h

#include <cppassist/memory/make_unique.h>

int * value = cppassist::make_unique<int>(42);

offsetof.h

class Foo
{
    int a;
    int b;
};

const auto offset = cppassist::offsetof(&Foo::b);

simd

simd provides structures and algorithms for SIMD-like data processing, as introduced by GPUs. This is achieved by compiler extensions as SSE, AVX2, and AVX512.

#include <cppassist/simd/simd.h>
#include <cppassist/simd/vector.h>
#include <cppassist/simd/value.h>

const auto valueSize = 512ull * 512ull * 512ull * 2ull; // 1GB of consecutive data

cppassist::vector<float> values1(valueSize);
cppassist::vector<float> values2(valueSize);
std::fill(values1.valueBegin(), values1.valueEnd(), 2.0f);
std::fill(values2.valueBegin(), values2.valueEnd(), 4.0f);

// Traverse whole vectors and perform the operations using vectorization
cppassist::traverse([](const cppassist::vector<float>::value_type & chunk1, cppassist::vector<float>::value_type & chunk2)
{
    chunk2 = sqrt((sqrt(chunk1) * sqrt(chunk2) + 12.0f) * 0.125f + 5.0f);
}, values1, values2);

string

This module provides string utilities like conversion between string and numeric data types, convenience functions for string operations, and some advanced regex functionality (either implemented using Boost or the C++ standard library).

conversion.h

#include <cppassist/string/conversion.h>

const auto valueInt = cppassist::string::fromString<int>("42");
const auto valueBool = cppassist::string::fromString<bool>("True");

const auto valueString = cppassist::string::toString(3.14f);

// Encode string as UC32
const auto valueUC32 = cppassist::string::encode("Hello", cppassist::Encoding::ASCII);

//Decode string from UC32
const auto valueUTF8 = cppassist::string::decode(valueUC32, cppassist::Encoding::UTF8);

manipulation.h

#include <cppassist/string/manipulation.h>

const auto commaSeparatedList = cppassist::join({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, ",");
const auto stringVector = cppassist::split("1,2,3,4,5", ',', false);
const auto trimmedString = cppassist::trim("     Hallo     ");
const auto strippedString = cppassist::stripped("1-2-3-4-5-6", { '-' });

regex.h

#include <cppassist/string/regex.h>

if (cppassist::matchesRegex(hexString, "([0-9A-Fa-f]{8}|[0-9A-Fa-f]{6})"))
{
    const auto componentList = cppassist::extract(hexString,
        "([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})?");
}

threading

The module threading provides functions that uses either OpenMP #pragma omp or the std::thread classes to execute a for loop concurrently.

#include <cppassist/threading/parallelfor.h>

bool parallelize = size > 25; // use parallel computation if threshold is reached

// Beware that start and end are both inclusive
cppassist::forEach(0u, size, [this](std::uint32_t number)
{
    // concurrent calls of this with 0 <= number <= size
}, parallelize);

tokenizer

Low-level tokenizer as base for more elaborate text parsers.

#include <cppassist/tokenizer/Tokenizer.h>

// Create tokenizer for JSON
cppassist::Tokenizer tokenizer;

tokenizer.setOptions(
    cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionParseStrings
    | cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionParseNumber
    | cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionParseBoolean
    | cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionParseNull
    | cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionCStyleComments
    | cppassist::Tokenizer::OptionCppStyleComments
);

tokenizer.setQuotationMarks("\"");
tokenizer.setSingleCharacters("{}[],:");

typelist

This module introduces a TypeList type that allows calling different instantiations of a templated method consecutively.

#include <cppassist/typelist/TypeList.h>

class TypeListCallback
{
public:
    TypeListCallback();

    template <typename T>
    void invoke()
    {
        // gets instantiated and called with each type from SupportedTypes
    }
};

using SupportedTypes = cppassist::TypeList<char, int, long, float, double>;

// Iterates over all type within type list and call the invoke overload for each type
SupportedTypes::apply(*this);