From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T06:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

On Sunday 07 July 2002 01:13 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> C and C++ are very bad examples of this because they have
> notoriously poor string handling.

Certainly the ANSI C++ string class has a very different (and much 
richer) interface than C's NUL-terminated arrays of char and the str* 
routines.

And they allow pretty much any plain'old'data type to be a 
representation of a character (through string traits). For instance, 
the same algorithms work with wide as with non-wide character 
strings.

I can't imagine anyone purposely using C-style strings in C++ unless 
they're writing for very constrained embedded systems (if they have 
to interface to C libraries, they can still use the C++ strings).

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