Re: std::string::npos always < std::string::size() ?
Christopher Pisz wrote:
Is std::string::npos always going to be less than any std::string 's
size()?
Actually, the other way around. std::string::npos is always going to be
greater than sny std::string's size.
I am trying to handle a replacement of all occurances of a substr, in
which the replacement also contains the substr. Yick. All I could
come up with is:
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string text;
text = "\nThis is a test line with newlines\n<-here and \n<-here and
\n\n<-two here";
// Format the text
std::string formattedText(text);
// Change every occurrance of "\n" to "\r\n"
std::string::size_type index = 0;
do
{
index = formattedText.find('\n', index);
if( index != std::string::npos )
{
formattedText.insert(index, "\r");
index += 2;
}
} while( index < formattedText.size() );
// debugging contents of formattedText here
return 0;
}
However, it depends on std::string::npos always being less than the
size of the string and I am not certain whether that is safe or not.
Your code is perfectly fine, however, your while statment can simply be
changed to:
} while ( index != std::string::npos );
And you could even simplify it a bit by rearranging it.
index = 0;
while ( ( index = formattedText.find('n', index ) != std::string::npos )
{
formattedText.insert(index, "\r");
index += 2;
}
Now you don't need the if statmeent and to me it is cleaner code.
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