Re: \0 in std::string
Stefan Naewe wrote:
A simple test:
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#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::string h("Hello ");
*h.rbegin() = '\0';
std::string w=h+std::string(" World");
std::cout << w << std::endl;
return 0;
}
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Output with different compilers:
MSVC6 :
"Hello 12"
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21):
"Hello World 12"
I know MSVC6 is severely borken but is it correct anyway ?
The resulting string (before output) should be (without the quotes
of course):
"Hello\0 World"
Now, what you see when you output it has been converted into the
output medium representation. I just tested it with VC++ v8, and
got two spaces between the words, which suggests that the null
character is replaced with a space in *my* output.
In order to verify the contents of the string, you need to print it
out char by char.
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