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- From: marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold)
- Subject: [CORRECTION] Re: portable string library
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- References: <4e743n$3m@galaxy.ucr.edu> <4ehdg8$1kn@guava.epix.net> <marnoldDLxJo4.J34@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:57:22 GMT
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- marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) writes:
-
- >hphilips@epix.net (Harry Philips) writes:
-
- >>In article <4e743n$3m@galaxy.ucr.edu>, ychiu@cs.ucr.edu (Yuan-Chi Chiu) says:
- >>>
- >>>Hello all:
- >>>
- >>> I'm looking for a string library that is portable to at least between
- >>>Unix and MicrosoftWindows.
-
- >>This may or may not be useful, but there's a book, "C++ Components and
- >>Algorithms" by Scott Robert Ladd, M&T Books, 1992, ISBN 1-55851-227-6.
- >>As you can see by the publication date, this book is getting long of tooth
- >>but I think you can still find it. Chapter 3 is a string class including
- >>the C++ source code.
-
- >>This suggestion probably constitutes a secondary information source for
- >>you, but it could probably get you started fairly quickly if you are
- >>unsuccessful in finding a library elsewhere, and with the source, you can
- >>modify the class to suit your needs.
-
- >Uh, does the phrase Standard Template Library (STL) ring any bells? It
- >includes a nice class called "string". For those that don't know, the
- >STL is poised to become the de facto standard glob of ADT, algorithm and
- >utility classes for C++ programming.
-
- Actually, let me make a correction. The emerging "standard library" for
- C++ constains "string" (among other things like IO streams, etc.). The
- Standard Template Library is only part of this, larger, standard library.
-
- Sorry for any confusion. My point was, in any case, that there is an
- emerging standard for a C++ string class. If you are about to program
- a bunch of code using strings, you might want to look at it, instead of
- some random, non-standard string class "off the street".
-
- It should be noted that the STL, etc. are intended to be inherently
- portable.
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