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From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: CString on UNIX
Date: 28 Mar 1997 09:37:56 -0500
Organization: Comeau Computing
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In article <5hfj1l$ej3@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca> variable@netcom.ca (Chris McKillop) writes:
>:>>
>:>> Well, there is a simple and VERY cross platform
>:>>solution. First step, stop using CString. Instead,
>:>>use the STL template class string. The STL is now part
>:>>of the C++ standard library, and is very crossplatform. You
>:>>might want to check out http://www.ipmce.su/people/fbp/stl/stlport.html
>:>>though, as the version of the STL that comes with VC++ v4.2
>:>>isn't very good. (No fault for Mr. Plaugher, more the fault of
>:>>the compilier).
>:>
>Greg Comeau wrote:
>:>Just a minor nitpick -- I agree with everything you've said otherwise,
>:>just that I've seen a number of people confused/disappointed on this in
>:>the past -- but string is not part of STL. It is part of the draft
>:>C++ Library, which STL is a part of too. But since string is such
>:>a fundamental, and will often be used with STL, it is good to know about it.
>:>Furthermore, it has been made _compatible_ with STL by allowing iterators
>:>to be defined for it.
>:>
>
> Thank you! :)
>
> I don't like posting things that aren't totally correct, and now
>I will be sure not to add string as part of the STL. My own confusion
>comes from the fact that string uses iterators in most implementations
>I have used.
Yes, there is a tie into STL because of the iterators.
Actually, the other side of the coin is that there really is nothing formally
called the STL in the draft, it is just a term the industry has applied
to that group of stuff.
> Are there any other data containers that have been STLified
>in the C++ stdlib?
Off-hand I don't think so.
>Now that I think about it, string really isn't a template now is it? :)
Yes, string is (indirectly, because it is a typedef) a template.
- Greg
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