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The Modern C++ Challenge

You're reading from   The Modern C++ Challenge Become an expert programmer by solving real-world problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993869
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marius Bancila Marius Bancila
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Preface 1. Math Problems FREE CHAPTER 2. Language Features 3. Strings and Regular Expressions 4. Streams and Filesystems 5. Date and Time 6. Algorithms and Data Structures 7. Concurrency 8. Design Patterns 9. Data Serialization 10. Archives, Images, and Databases 11. Cryptography 12. Networking and Services 13. Bibliography 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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95. Finding the IP address of a host

Host information, including IP addresses, can be retrieved with system-specific network utilities, such as gethostbyname(). Although this is available on all platforms, the way it is used is different and the requirement is to write a program that works on all platforms. There are various open source cross-platform libraries for networking, such as POCO and Asio/Boost.Asio. POCO is a more complex library, with support for not only networking but also data access, cryptography, XML, JSON, Zip, and others. Asio is a stand-alone, header-only library with a consistent asynchronous I/O model for network programming. It is also available as part of the Boost library, and a standardization...

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