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Rich Paul wrote:
> I have noticed, while working on the standard string class, that the
> char_traits functions ...
> ... when these functions get a string that contains eos(), do they
> stop, or do they carry on to the bitter end?

C++ strings don't pass judgment on what's in them; eos() is used
purely as the value to slap onto the end when producing a c_str() 
value, or the terminator when constructing from a const char*.

It only matters when you convert back via c_str(); then, of course,
to C the string will look shorter than it is.  Tough.

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org  http://www.cantrip.org/


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