Re: substr and find of string

From:
"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:04:50 +0300
Message-ID:
<#TMg76zDJHA.3392@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
"George" wrote:

I think check out_of_range exception in substr is necessary from
my code below.

int main()
{
string a = "abc";

string b = a.substr (10, 30);

return 0;
}


This code contains obvious bug: you are trying to get a substring
that does not exist. This is what `std::out_of_range' exception is
for, after all. If you have something special to do with
`std::out_of_range' exception, then you can catch it:

std::string foo(const std::string& s)
{
    return s.substr(10, 30);
}

int main()
{
    try
    {
        string a = "abc";

        string b = foo(a);
    }
    catch(const std::out_of_range& oor)
    {
        // do something with `oor'
        // ...
        std::clog <<
            "TODO: Check string ranges!" << std::endl;

        std::cerr << oor.what() << std::endl;
    }
    catch(const std::exception& e)
    {
        std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

You are welcome to add this information to the MSDN page.


So, you confirmed MSDN does not contains such information.


Why do you need my confirmation? Can't you see it with your own
eyes?

Any other places we could find such information?


Yes. The C++ Standard, section 21.3.6.7 "basic_string::substr".

Alex

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