Why don't you use the c_str() member of the string? (Or has that gone
away in egcs - I do most of my work with G++ still). It should give you
what you want, and I'm fairly certain it's a part of the standard...and I
don't think that the data() member has to be null terminated, according to
the standard, anyways...
-David
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva writes:
> > Orn E Hansen writes:
> >
> > > I noticed that there is no implementation of String class.
> >
> > String is part of libg++, that is not included in egcs. egcs does
> > include libstdc++, that provides a definition of class string in the
> > header file <string>, not <string.h>, that is a C header-file.
> >
> > There's no equivalent of libg++'s class Integer in the C++ standard
> > library.
> >
>
> Since we're at it.
>
> I find <string> close to unusable :-) The reason, is that it appears
> implemented as "pascal strings"... an example, running the trailing
> program will result in this display:
>
> Enter? 4000
> Enter? 300
> Enter? 50,35
> Enter? 0
> => 4000,00 (4:4000sr/share/i18()
> => 300,00 (3:300)
> => 50,35 (5:50,35)
>
> You'll have to explicidly add '\0' to correct this, in the line...
>
> str = (*ptr) + '\0';
>
> While gnu 'String' is implemented, including the extra '\0', the
> absence of it, makes defining your own almost preferrable to using
> it. I am assuming that this is a "normal" behaviour? as trying it
> on libg++ results in the precise same result...
>
>
> ----- program ----
>
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <string>
> #include <list.h>
>
> extern "C" {
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <locale.h>
>
> };
>
> main()
> {
> list<string> lstr;
> list<string>::iterator ptr;
> string str;
> double v;
>
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> do {
> cout << "Enter? ";
> cout.flush();
> cin >> str;
> v = strtod(str.data(), NULL);
> if (v != 0.0)
> lstr.push_back(str);
> } while (v != 0.0);
> for (ptr = lstr.begin();ptr != lstr.end();ptr++) {
> str = (*ptr);
> v = strtod(str.data(), NULL);
> cout.form(" => %8.2f (%d:%s)", v, str.length(), str.data()) << endl;
> };
> }
>
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