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16.3.27 Boost Format Strings
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   Boost format strings are described in the documentation of the
‘boost::format’ class, at
.  In summary, a
directive has either the same syntax as in a C format string, such as
‘%1$+5d’, or may be surrounded by vertical bars, such as ‘%|1$+5d|’ or
‘%|1$+5|’, or consists of just an argument number between percent signs,
such as ‘%1%’.