dtl
tcstring<N>
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Description
The tcstring<N> template is lightweight wrapper for character arrays. This class
acts as a simple wrapper for a char[N+1] array and provides commonly used
std::string functions against that array. The purpose of this class is to:
- Provide commonly used std::string functions against a character array.
- Improve compiler portability. Some compilers cannot detect the size of a character array when passed as a template. This means
dtl cannot bind against a character array field in a portable fashion. Therefore, we need this template in order
to portably detect the size of the character array field.
- Make it easy to substitue this class for a character array. For this reason the class provides a cast to a char *. Similarly,
tcstring<1> provides a cast to a char to make it easy to substitute for single character fields.
- Make the class have similar storage characteristics to a char[N+1] array. For this reason, the class has no members other than the
character array and no virtual methods.
For more details on this simple class, see the class definition in array_string.h. Note also that if UNICODE is defined this
class wraps a unicode array, i.e. it provides std::wstring methods against a
wchar_t[N+1] array.
Definition
Defined in the array_string.h header
file.
Refinement of
None.
Associated types
None.
Example:
None.
Public Base Classes
None.
Notation
None.
Expression semantics
None.
Notes
None.
See also
None.
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