Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#9222 new Feature Requests

iostreams documentation hard to read

Reported by: harris.pc@… Owned by: Jonathan Turkanis
Milestone: To Be Determined Component: iostreams
Version: Boost 1.54.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Hi,

You guys have put a lot of work into iostreams documentation, but, where it falls down is when someone unfamiliar with the library (ie, me) wants to quickly figure out how to do something.

For example, I wanted to create an input stream from an existing array.

I found this page: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/array.html

But frustratingly, there was no example on how to use. Google was of limited use, eventually I found this page, http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/iostreams/doc/guide/generic_streams.html#examples

Which was exactly what I wanted to know, but there really should be an example on the array's page, or at least a link to the relevant documentation that talks about how to use it.

Was very frustrating.

cheers, Paul

Change History (1)

comment:1 by viboes, 9 years ago

Component: Documentationiostreams
Owner: changed from Matias Capeletto to Jonathan Turkanis
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