[Bug libstdc++/19911] Using std::string find the n field always causes nothing to be found

["grogers at cray dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From grogers at cray dot com  2005-02-11 20:59 -------
Subject: Re:  Using std::string find the n field always
 causes nothing to be found

Okay, doesn't make much sense.

The docs I found on the web all had it described as n being the number 
of characters past pos to search.

pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-02-11 20:46 -------
> No string.find (const char *s, size_type pos, size_t n) returns the same as:
> string.find(string(s, n), pos)
> which means you are allocating a string with length 5 but the string is really 
> only of lenght 1 so this will not be able to find the string.
> 
> This documented by 21.3.6.1 of the C++ standard.
> 



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