This is a quick and easy class that will generate MD5 hashes from strings. I originally wrote it to insert into my Oracle database so I could generate MD5 hases for passwords from PL/SQL.

Example

String md5Hash = stringMD5("my password");

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

Converts a string representation of a number with any base(binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, up to base 36) to a long int.

Well, ruby is actually so flexible that there is no real need to implement the goode olde signals & slots metaphor. But it serves nicely as demonstration of ruby properties, so here we go.

Transform any basic type to string. Very handy for log messages

Usage:

int i(12);
float j(3.14);
cout

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

enjoy

Simple tests for dir and file existance. Path creation and removal.

boost::format gives you the ablility to safely use printf like formatting as well as positional format specifiers ala .NET.

template function to create a boost::shared_ptr in the form

boost::shared_ptr classPtr = new_ptr(Arg1, Arg2);

You can also make new_ptr_access a friend of className and make the constructor and destructor private.

This keeps the end user from:

Creating an instance manually on the heap
Creating an instance manually on the stack
Deleting a shared_ptr manually using "delete get()"

Gets a regular expression that'll search for any regexp pattern specified in the parameters.