Re: Possible boost addition: sub string and const s tring.

Forwarded to main Boost list - that's the more appropriate venue for
discussions of possible additions.

-- Jim Hyslop boost-users moderator.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: alexei_novakov [mailto:alexei_novakov@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:05 PM
> To: Boost-Users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Boost-Users] Possible boost addition: sub string and const
> string.
>
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> I have two classes which I found pretty handy: sub_string (behaves as
> a mirror of the portion of master basic_string) and const_string (C-
> string wrapper). Nice thing about these two is they implemented as
> template specialization of basic_string which has advantages:
> a) familiar interface;
> b) possibility to reuse the code written for basic_string (like
> string streams, lexical casts, etc).
>
> Any interest?
>
> Regards.
>
> Alexei Novakov

Sounds interesting, like slice on a valarray

When I have to do a lot of manipulation of sub string and can't afford 
to copy back and forward I normally resort to using vector<char>; this 
sounds a lot handier

How does it work ?

        Vin



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