Subject: Re: Abi string class
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 13:21:59 CST
Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> If I recall correctly, length() and size() are two VERY
> different methods of the standard C++ class.
Nope.
> length() is the functional equivalent of strlen(s), while
> size is actually the allocated buffer size (which is NOT
> necessarily the size of the string + 1).
Not so. length() and size() actually both returning the length of the
controlled sequence (i.e. strlen). The "internal-buffer-size" function you
were thinking of is capacity().
I might add that I've never seen the use of length() which explains why I
was completely unaware of it's existance.
/Mike
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