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Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
> 
> >a) Why does basic_string::copy() not also copy an ending '\0'? If
> >there's some sort of good reason, why wasn't a function added that did
> >this (perhaps basic_string::copy_null() or something)? I must say, it
> >is very inconvenient to copy a string to a C-style array of chars with
> >the current string class.
> 
> There is such a function - it is called c_str().

well, to be equivilent, it would really be:

strncpy ( buffer, string::c_str(), x );
buffer[x] = 0;	// only if strlen(buffer > x), but it's not safe
		// to check that way, since strlening a non-termed 						
		// char[] is a bad thing
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