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On 30 Aug 1995, Donald Hunter wrote:

=> In article <41ve2f$2hk@gabi.gabi-soft.fr> kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:
=> 
=> > 
=> > 2. The other alternative is just to have the str function add the '\0'.
=> > This is simple: you only add it when you need it.
=> >
=> 
=> I think this behaviour would be desirable. str() returns a pointer to
=> a string and by convention these are terminated with a '\0'.  It is
=> quite dangerous for str() to return a pointer to a character buffer
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
=> which is not terminated with a '\0'. 
=> 
=> Donald.

You answered your own question.  str() returns a pointer to a character
buffer, *not* a pointer to a string!
If you are using strstream to fill in a CHARACTER BUFFER, then you
certainly don't want str() mucking the works by appending a '\0'.

In fact, in my manual, the description reads:

       strstream - stream class for "I/O" using character arrays

It says nothing about nul-terminated strings.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to make you go:  ostr << ends;
before calling str();
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