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From: Bill Dimm <billd@gim.net>
Subject: strings and x[i] = '\0'
Date: 1996/07/30
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Looking at the April 95 ANSI draft I don't see any
language that prohibits the user from doing this (and
expecting it to work):

 string x("one");
 x[1] = '\0';
 cout << x.length() << endl;

Is the string object required to get the length right under
such circumstances?  This would seem to make it impractical to 
store the length of the string in the object.  Can anyone
provide clarification?

Thanks,
  Bill Dimm   billd@gim.net
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