Scnlib Alternatives

scnlib reviews and mentions

• Why are strings and IO so complicated?
  13 projects | /r/cpp | 7 Dec 2023

  scnlib (https://github.com/eliaskosunen/scnlib) scanf

• Reddit++
  2 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Mar 2023
• Safe and cross platform C++11 alternative to sscanf
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 17 Feb 2023
• CPM.cmake to make CMake's FetchContent easier
  4 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2022

  include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( Catch2 GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2.git GIT_TAG v3.0.0-preview4 ) FetchContent_Declare( fmt GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git GIT_TAG 9.1.0 ) FetchContent_Declare( scnlib GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/eliaskosunen/scnlib.git GIT_TAG v1.1.2 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Catch2 fmt scnlib)

• [C++20] ClearIO library (unfinished)
  5 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Dec 2022

  Yeah, but parsing format strings in runtime induces an overhead, and doing it in compile time is not trivial, and I’m not sure ClearIO is worth the trouble, since it turns out scnlib exists.

• My AoC2021 solutions in C++
  2 projects | /r/adventofcode | 15 Oct 2022

  The code is rather nice (in my biased opinion) and makes heavy use of a couple of libraries like scnlib and [Eigen](eigen.tuxfamily.org/). Some things could probably be more optimized but I mainly focused on conciseness. I hope this is useful and I can explain my thought process further if you have any questions.

• what annoys you most while using c++?
  5 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Aug 2022

  I've found https://github.com/eliaskosunen/scnlib but haven't tested it. Maybe that suits your needs for 2.

• The Year is 2022 and the Standard is C++20; what is your preferred way to do Text I/O?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Apr 2022

  I had a user enum like enum class Color {Red, Green, Blue}; that I wanted to add serialization support for. Following the docs (https://scnlib.readthedocs.io/), after some tweaks I arrived at the following:

• scnlib (scanf for modern C++) - version 1.0 released
  2 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Feb 2022

  Thanks for the comment, I made an issue tracking this: https://github.com/eliaskosunen/scnlib/issues/51

• Modern C++ in Advent of Code
  8 projects | /r/cpp | 15 Dec 2021

  I am using some modern libraries: scnlib fmtlib Eigen and usually abuse lambdas :)

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