From 8070745502455234795 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,25a6c79e64b4e6be,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-11 17:29:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!195.64.68.27!newsgate.cistron.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Curtis Smith Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: NUL character in basic_string Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:28:23 GMT Organization: Eskimo North www.eskimo.com (800) 246-6874 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <39E4D6F8.653BA13F@vger.vsin.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 971310510 mail2news:4387 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2000 21:10:07 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 15 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:1411 My reading of the C++ standard leads me to believe that the basic_string template (string, wstring, &c.) may contain NUL characters (that is, 0 widened to the appropriate type), but some library implementors don't seem to support such strings. Is that one of those thing that is ludicrous for me to expect, given the traditional handling of strings in C, or what? Curtis Smith --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]