std::numpunct

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Defined in header <locale>
template< class CharT >
class numpunct;

The facet std::numpunct encapsulates numeric punctuation preferences. Stream I/O operations use std::numpunct through std::num_get and std::num_put for parsing numeric input and formatting numeric output.

The numbers that are supported by std::numpunct have the format described below. Here digit represents the radix set specified by the fmtflags argument value, thousands-sep and decimal-point are the results of thousands_sep() and decimal_point() functions respectively. The format of integer values is as follows:

integer     ::= [sign] units
sign        ::= plusminus
plusminus   ::= '+' | '-'
units       ::= digits [thousands-sep units]
digits      ::= digit [digits]

The number of digits between the thousand-seps (maximum size of digits) is specified by the result of grouping().

The format of floating-point values is as follows:

floatval    ::= [sign] units [decimal-point [digits]] [e [sign] digits] |
                [sign]        decimal-point  digits   [e [sign] digits]
e           ::= ’e’ | ’E’
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Inheritance diagram

Two standalone (locale-independent) specializations are provided by the standard library:

Defined in header <locale>
std::numpunct<char> provides equivalents of the "C" locale preferences
std::numpunct<wchar_t> provides wide character equivalents of the "C" locale preferences

In addition, every locale object constructed in a C++ program implements its own (locale-specific) versions of these specializations.

Member types

Member type Definition
char_type charT
string_type std::basic_string<charT>

Member functions

constructs a new numpunct facet
(public member function)
destructs a numpunct facet
(protected member function)
invokes do_decimal_point
(public member function)
invokes do_thousands_sep
(public member function)
invokes do_grouping
(public member function)
invokes do_truename or do_falsename
(public member function)

Protected member functions

provides the character to use as decimal point
(virtual protected member function)
provides the character to use as thousands separator
(virtual protected member function)
[virtual]
provides the numbers of digits between each pair of thousands separators
(virtual protected member function)
provides the string to use as the name of the boolean true and false
(virtual protected member function)

Member objects

static std::locale::id id
id of the locale
(public member object)

Example

The following example changes the string representations of true and false

#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
 
struct french_bool : std::numpunct<char> {
    string_type do_truename() const { return "oui"; }
    string_type do_falsename() const { return "non"; }
};
 
int main()
{
    std::cout << "default locale: "
              << std::boolalpha << true << ", " << false << '\n';
    std::cout.imbue(std::locale(std::cout.getloc(), new french_bool));
    std::cout << "locale with modified numpunct: "
              << std::boolalpha << true << ", " << false << '\n';
}

Output:

default locale: true, false
locale with modified numpunct: oui, non

See also

creates a numpunct facet for the named locale
(class template)