gz-util - About

This c++20 library contains multiple useful functions, most of them are focused on working with strings. Documentation is available here.

Please report bugs on the github page!

Features

• Extensive logger using variadic templates to log almost anything
• Some containers like a thread safe queue and a ringbuffer
• Regex that works with std::string_view
• Type conversion utility (from string to int/float/uint/bool)
• Settings manager which can store settings of different types and load/save them from/to a file
• Python script that generates an array of strings for your enumerations, so that you can get the name of an enum value

Installation

Arch Linux (ABS)

• Download PKGBUILD: wget https://raw.github.com/MatthiasQuintern/gz-cpp-util/main/PKGBUILD
• Build and install with the Arch Build System: makepkg -si

Linux

• Make a clone of this repo: git clone https://github.com/MatthiasQuintern/gz-cpp-util
• Build and install: cd src && make && make DESTDIR=/usr/local install

Windows

I do not delevop on windows, but you'll figure it out. The library does not contain platform specific code and should compile with mvsc.

Documentation

The documentation is for this library is available here, but it can also be generated using doxygen. cd gz-cpp-util/src make docs firefox ../docs/html/index.html Replace firefox with your web browser

Usage

Library

• Add -lgzutil to your linker flags
• Include the wanted header: #include <gz-util/*dir*/*header.hpp*>
• The name of the library is gz-util and not gz-cpp-util like the git repo!

Enumeration-to-string script

• The gen_enum_str.py script will be installed to /usr/(local)/bin/gz-enum-str.
• Run gz-enum-str -h to list available options.

Changelog [maj.min.rel]

2022-11-01 [1.3.5]

• String conversion utility now split in to_string.hpp, from_string.hpp and conversion.hpp
• Containers with types that have a toString overload can be converted to string
• Improved the documentation
• Removed util directory

2022-10-30 [1.3.4]

• Added toString support for 2D and 3D extent types
• Added readBinaryFile function
• Added toHex/Oct/BinString for forward ranges

2022-10-23 [1.3.3]

• Added integer to string in hex/oct/bin representation conversion
• Added integer from string in hex/oct/bin representation conversion

2022-10-19 [1.3.1] [1.3.2]

• Changes to logger (log.hpp):
  • Added create info struct constructor
  • Timestamp can be disabled and colored
  • Added different log levels that can be turned off/on at compile time

2022-09-26 [1.3]

• Added SettingsManager
• Renamed getXXX to getXXXOr
• Added more type conversion utility
  • fromString()
  • toString()
• Logger now uses to_string
• Restructured files
• Added more documentation

2022-09-17 [1.2]

• Moved math part to its own repository/library here

2022-09-10 [1.1]

• Added matrices to math lib
• Improved logger

2022-09-05 [1.0]

• initial version