From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dietmar.Kuehl@asa.iZB-Soft.de
To: oliva@dcc.unicamp.br, oe.hansen@oehansen.pp.se
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: AW: Strings and Integers?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 07:38:00 -0000
Message-id: <c=DE%a=SKO%p=BaySGV%l=M9900S98.SER-971201153700Z-42706@m9900s98.asa.izb-soft.de>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00020.html

Hi,
>
> I find <string> close to unusable :-)  The reason, is that it appears
>implemented as "pascal strings"...

This is probably because you haven't closely paid attention to the
documentation
(like eg. found in the DWP):

>    cout.form(" => %8.2f (%d:%s)", v, str.length(), str.data()) << endl;

'data()' is indeed defined to return the internal representation,
potentially without a
terminating '\0'! Use 'c_str()' if you want a '\0' terninated
representation.