From -8632868298919993727 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,9d8a465d14c25851 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: strchr should be fixed in the standard Date: 1997/05/07 Message-ID: <5kpn50$qrl@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 239953012 References: <336F6A69.2DD8@booksys.com> X-Original-Date: 7 May 1997 10:56:32 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUBM3Bpc+EDnX0m9pzZAQGAxAF/W8jPjusM8cvhKEJKNGJSA1sG+uJ9U/z7 Uk9GO5DkRMHpvWPofHwzBx0koLw5UU0c =PHTH Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU Mark Jones writes: >Has anyone given thought to having two version of strchr? > >const char *strchr(const char *s, int c) >and >char *strchr(char *s, int c) ... >Comments? Is this old news? Yes, it is old news: not only has this been considered, it is indeed part of the C++ draft working paper. Similarly there are two versions of strrchr(), strpbrk(), strstr(), memchr(), wcschr(), wcsrchr(), wcsstr(), and wmemchr(). See 21.4 [lib.c.strings] in the DWP. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. --- [ 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 ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ] [ Policy: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/policy.html ] [ Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ]