Extracting Single Elements

See Extracting Elements and also Skipping Elements below.

Extracting Tuples

operator >> () can be used for extracting sub-tuples.

ntuple< int, double, char, bool >  idcb( 1, 2.0, 'c', false );

ntuple< int, double > id;
char c;
bool b;

idcb >> id >> c >> b;

std::cout << std::boolalpha;
std::cout << idcb << " >> " << id << " >> " << c << " >> " << b << std::endl;
  
CHECK( id == ntuple_( 1, 2.0 ) && c == 'c' && !b );

Test Result: gcc34 Passed, msvc80 Passed, msvc71 Passed

Output

(1,2,c,false) >> (1,2) >> c >> false

Skipping Elements

When extacting elements of sub-tuples a convinience method is provided so that unwanted values can be skipped.

ntuple<> has a static template member skip< N >() that returns a type that encapsulates the compile-time constant [1] number of elements to be skipped.

This value used as an extractor (tuple >> tuple.skip<2>() >> third_value) causes N elements to be skipped.

ntuple< int, double, char, bool >  tuple( 1, 2.0, 'c', false );

int i;
bool b;

tuple >> i >> tuple.skip< 2 >() >> b;

std::cout << std::boolalpha;
std::cout << tuple << " >> " << i << " >> tuple.skip< 2 >() >> " << b << std::endl;
  
CHECK( i == 1 && !b );

Test Result: gcc34 Passed, msvc80 Passed, msvc71 Passed

Output

(1,2,c,false) >> 1 >> tuple.skip< 2 >() >> false

As a further convinience the value 0 (or infact any bool or bool convertable constant [2]) can be used to skip a single element.

ntuple< int, double, char >  tuple( 1, 2.0, 'c' );

int i;
char c;

tuple >> i >> 0 >> c;

std::cout << tuple << " >> " << i << " >> 0 >> " << c << std::endl;
  
CHECK( i == 1 && c == 'c' );

Test Result: gcc34 Passed, msvc80 Passed, msvc71 Passed

Output

(1,2,c) >> 1 >> 0 >> c

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[1]	skip< N >() returns a imp::meta::int_type< N >

[2]	Yes its a Hack.