About code. Mostly on C++
I have been working lately on a C++ library for handling monetary values, currencies, rounding and other related features. It is called moneycpp and it’s a C++ 17 header-only, cross-platform library available on GitHub.
The library is intended for being used in a variety of types of application including ERP systems, banking, finance, insurance, games, and others.
The following is a list of its core requirements:
A CRON expression is a string composed of six fields (in some implementation seven), separated by a whites space, representing a time schedule. CRON expressions are used in various job schedulers (such as the Linux job scheduler, the Quartz scheduler, Azure scheduler for functions, etc.). Recently, I have written a C++ library for parsing such expressions and determining the next occurrence of the scheduled time. The library is called croncpp. It is written in C++17, is header-only, open-source and cross-platform, and can be found on GitHub.
In a previous post, I wrote about the C++ unit-testing framework Catch2. Catch uses another library, called Clara, for parsing command line arguments. Clara is an open-source, single-header, simple, composable and easy to use parser written by the author of Catch2. In this post, I will show how you can use Clara in C++ to parse command line arguments.
I have recently submitted a proposal for a new standard library for universally unique identifiers. The library is called uuid and the paper, P0959R0 – A Proposal for a Universally Unique Identifier Library, is available on Github. The design of the library is inspired by the Boost Uuid Library and the Crossuuid library. I got lots of great feedback that shaped the formed of the proposal from people on the ISO C++ Standard – Future Proposals forum.
I used to have several open-source projects available on CodePlex. At the end of 2017, the site was put in read-only mode and it will probably be closed at some point. Therefore, I have decided to move the projects that could still be useful to GitHub.
C++11 added a date and time utility library called chrono, available in namespace std::chrono and header <chrono>. The problem with it is that the library is a general purpose one and therefore lacks many useful features, such as working with dates, weeks, calendars, timezones and other related features. Fortunately, a rich date and time library…