------- Additional Comments From grogers at cray dot com 2005-02-11 20:59 ------- Subject: Re: Using std::string find the n field always causes nothing to be found
Okay, doesn't make much sense. The docs I found on the web all had it described as n being the number of characters past pos to search. pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > ------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-02-11 > 20:46 ------- > No string.find (const char *s, size_type pos, size_t n) returns the same as: > string.find(string(s, n), pos) > which means you are allocating a string with length 5 but the string is > really > only of lenght 1 so this will not be able to find the string. > > This documented by 21.3.6.1 of the C++ standard. > -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19911