String and std::string

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov@gmx.net
Sun Mar 16 15:21:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> >> Are there any features String has but std::string does not?
> > 
> > Except for casecompare() I think not. Of course you can perform
> > caseless comparison with std::string. It's just a bit tricky :).
> > Hint: char_traits.
> 
> What fun. I think it's time to improve my STL knowledge.

Not STL, C++ :)

> > There was a short discussion in the
> > past about this I think.
> 
> Can anyone point me to it? "String" doesn't make a very good search term!

Look for 'japanese' :)) You'll find it easily. There are other interesting 
topic around that one.




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