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##### Boolean Parser (`bool_`)

###### Description

The `bool_parser` can parse booleans of arbitrary type, `B`. The boolean base type `T` can be a user defined boolean type as long as the type follows certain expression requirements (documented below).

###### Header

    // forwards to <boost/spirit/home/qi/numeric/bool.hpp>
    #include <boost/spirit/include/qi_bool.hpp>

Also, see Include Structure.

###### Namespace

Name
`boost::spirit::bool_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::bool_`
`boost::spirit::true_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::true_`
`boost::spirit::false_ // alias: boost::spirit::qi::false_`

###### Synopsis

    template <typename T, typename BooleanPolicies>
    struct bool_parser;

###### Template parameters

Parameter | Description | Default
--- | --- | ---
`B` | The boolean type of the boolean parser. | `bool`
`BooleanPolicies` | Policies control the parser's behavior. | `bool_policies<B>`

###### Model of

> `PrimitiveParser`

Notation

`BP`

  An instance of `bool_parser` (type).

`BP`

  A boolean `Policies` (type).

`b`

  An object of `B`, the numeric base type.

`f`, `l`

  `ForwardIterator`. first/last iterator pair.

`attr`

  An attribute value.

`Context`

  The type of the parse context of the current invocation of the `bool_` parser.

`ctx`

  An instance of the parse context, `Context`.

###### Expression Semantics

Semantics of an expression is defined only where it differs from, or is not defined in `PrimitiveParser`.

Expression | Semantics
--- | ---
`BP()` | Instantiate and (default) construct a `bool_parser`
`bool_` | Create a `bool_parser<bool, bool_policies<bool> >`
`true_` | Create a `bool_parser<bool, bool_policies<bool> >` which is succeeding only after matching `"true"`.
`false_` | Create a `bool_parser<bool, bool_policies<bool> >` which is succeeding only after matching `"false"`.

| Note
All boolean parsers properly respect the `no_case``[]` directive.

###### Attributes

> `B`, The boolean type of the boolean parser.

###### Complexity

> O(N), where N is the number of characters being parsed.

###### Minimum Expression Requirements for `B`

The boolean type, `B`, the minimum expression requirements listed below must be valid. Take note that additional requirements may be imposed by custom policies.

Expression | Semantics
--- | ---
`B(bool)` | Constructible from a `bool`.

###### Boolean `Policies`

The boolean `Policies` template parameter is a class that groups all the policies that control the parser's behavior. Policies control the boolean parsers' behavior.

The default is `bool_policies<bool>`. The default is provided to take care of the most common case (there are many ways to represent, and hence parse, boolean numbers). In most cases, the default policies are sufficient and can be used straight out of the box. They are designed to parse boolean value of the form `"true"` and `"false"`.

###### Boolean `Policies` Expression Requirements

For models of boolean `Policies` the following expressions must be valid:

Expression | Semantics
--- | ---
`BP::parse_true(f, l, attr, ctx)` | Parse a `true` value.
`BP::parse_false(f, l, attr, ctx)` | Parse a `false` value.

The functions should return true if the required representations of `true` or `false` have been found. In this case the attribute `n` should be set to the matched value (`true` or `false`).

###### Boolean `Policies` Specializations

The easiest way to implement a proper boolean parsing policy is to derive a new type from the the type `bool_policies` while overriding the aspects of the parsing which need to be changed. For example, here's the implementation of a boolean parsing policy interpreting the string `"eurt"` (i.e. "true" spelled backwards) as `false`:

    struct backwards_bool_policies : qi::bool_policies<>
    {
        // we want to interpret a 'true' spelled backwards as 'false'
        template <typename Iterator, typename Attribute, typename Context>
        static bool
        parse_false(Iterator& first, Iterator const& last, Attribute& attr, Context& ctx)
        {
            namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
            if (qi::detail::string_parse("eurt", first, last, qi::unused, qi::unused))
            {
                spirit::traits::assign_to(false, attr, ctx);    // result is false
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    };

###### Example

| Note
The test harness for the example(s) below is presented in the Basics Examples section.

Some using declarations:

    using boost::spirit::qi::bool_;
    using boost::spirit::qi::bool_parser;

Basic real number parsing:

    test_parser("true", bool_);
    test_parser("false", bool_);

A custom real number policy:

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //  These policies can be used to parse "eurt" (i.e. "true" spelled backwards)
    //  as `false`
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    struct backwards_bool_policies : boost::spirit::qi::bool_policies<>
    {
        // we want to interpret a 'true' spelled backwards as 'false'
        template <typename Iterator, typename Attribute>
        static bool
        parse_false(Iterator& first, Iterator const& last, Attribute& attr)
        {
            namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi;
            if (qi::detail::string_parse("eurt", first, last, qi::unused))
            {
                namespace traits = boost::spirit::traits;
                traits::assign_to(false, attr);    // result is false
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    };

And its use:

    bool_parser<bool, backwards_bool_policies> backwards_bool;
    test_parser("true", backwards_bool);
    test_parser("eurt", backwards_bool);