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Nico Josuttis <nico@bredex.de> writes:
>Due to the fact that strings have iterator support,
>the could be used as stl container.

Correct.

>But two things are missing:
> - push_back()
> - clear()

No, these are not needed.

>These are fundamental operations, that the corresponding "normal"
>container, namely vector, has.

The documentation I have does not list clear as a member of vector.

>Especially push_back() would be essential to use insert iterators
>for strings.

No, this isn't true.  You need push_back to use back_insert_iterator,
but insert_iterator only needs insert, which string does have.

Try the following program (works with gcc 2.7.2/libg++ 2.7.1 and appears
to conform to the standard if I didn't screw up):

----------------------
#include <string>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>

const char text[] = "This is text\n";
const char text2[] = "even more ";

int main()
{
    string foo;
    insert_iterator<string> iter = inserter(foo, foo.begin());
    copy(text, text + sizeof(text)-1, iter);
    cout << "value of foo: " << foo;

    copy(text2, text2 + sizeof(text2)-1, inserter(foo, foo.begin()+8));
    cout << "value of foo: " << foo;
}
----------------------
	 
This prints
value of foo: This is text
value of foo: This is even more text

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