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Boost C++ Application Development  Cookbook

You're reading from   Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook Recipes to simplify your application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282247
Length 438 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anton Polukhin Alekseevic Anton Polukhin Alekseevic
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting to Write Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Resources 3. Converting and Casting 4. Compile-Time Tricks 5. Multithreading 6. Manipulating Tasks 7. Manipulating Strings 8. Metaprogramming 9. Containers 10. Gathering Platform and Compiler Information 11. Working with the System 12. Scratching the Tip of the Iceberg

Do it at scope exit!

If you were dealing with languages, such as Java, C#, or Delphi, you obviously were using the try {} finally{} construction. Let me briefly describe to you what do these language constructions do.

When a program leaves the current scope via return or exception, code in the finally block is executed. This mechanism is used as a replacement for the RAII pattern:

// Some pseudo code (suspiciously similar to Java code) 
try {
FileWriter f = new FileWriter("example_file.txt");
// Some code that may throw or return
// ...
} finally {
// Whatever happened in scope, this code will be executed
// and file will be correctly closed
if (f != null) {
f.close()
}
}

Is there a way to do such a thing in C++?

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