try, finally

[Jason Cipriani]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:09 PM, me22 <me22.ca@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Jason Cipriani
>
> <jason.cipriani@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Does std or boost have some kind of "smart pointers" that let me
>  >  define the cleanup actions without having to write too much additional
>  >  code?
>  >
>
>  Yup, boost::shared_ptr (std::shared_ptr, in C++1x) will let you do that.
>
>  boost::shared_ptr<xmlDoc> doc( xmlReadFile(...), xmlFreeDoc );
>  if (!doc) throw something();

Thanks, this is exactly the kind of solution I was looking for.

Jason