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- From: beman@dawes.win.net (Beman Dawes)
- Message-ID: <1278@dawes.win.net>
- X-Original-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:42:03
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- Date: 22 Mar 96 02:04:09 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Reply-To: beman@dawes.win.net (Beman Dawes)
- Subject: Re: A couple of questions about strings
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- >I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but I had a couple of
- >questions about the strings class (at least, the one in the April WP).
- >Specifically, there are two design decisions that I don't understand.
- >
- >a) Why does basic_string::copy() not also copy an ending '\0'? If
- >there's some sort of good reason, why wasn't a function added that did
- >this (perhaps basic_string::copy_null() or something)? I must say, it
- >is very inconvenient to copy a string to a C-style array of chars with
- >the current string class.
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- There is such a function - it is called c_str().
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- >b) I don't see any reason why basic_string::copy() is not a const
- >function. Any particular reason for that one?
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- copy() is const in the current WP.
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- --Beman Dawes
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