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  2. From: "Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>" <ncm@cantrip.org>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: char_traits<T> return values
  5. Date: 13 Apr 1996 23:17:19 GMT
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  7. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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  19. Rich Paul wrote:
  20. > I have noticed, while working on the standard string class, that the
  21. > char_traits functions ...
  22. > ... when these functions get a string that contains eos(), do they
  23. > stop, or do they carry on to the bitter end?
  24.  
  25. C++ strings don't pass judgment on what's in them; eos() is used
  26. purely as the value to slap onto the end when producing a c_str() 
  27. value, or the terminator when constructing from a const char*.
  28.  
  29. It only matters when you convert back via c_str(); then, of course,
  30. to C the string will look shorter than it is.  Tough.
  31.  
  32. Nathan Myers
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