Re: Black magic when using fopen!?
"Thomas J. Gritzan"
void trim_cstring(string& str)
{
str.resize( strlen(&str[0]) );
}
:-(
operator[] of std::string is there to access individual elements.
The thing you write has several problems:
- if string is empty, it is out of bounds access, undefined behavior
Correct, but are you sure that calling c_str on an empty string isn't UB?
Yea.
- nothing states that the storage is continous, and the other bytes are
stored in the following bytes
True, but practically, it is, and the next standard guarantees it.
The next standard possibly evolves in that direction, but it was NOT the
plan in the first place (unlike for std::vector, where the memory req was
just forgotten in the first standard text and was fixed in TC1). string was
supposed to work being split in pieces internally.
- especially nothing states that the string will hold anything but the
string content's characters -- without terminating 0 that is required by
strlen()
My point is that the OP did store a C-style string with terminating 0
Maybe he did, it is a legal action for string and can be done easily through
its interface -- it's even easy to do by using the range constructor. Once
in the string it can be checked using the legal interface ways, i.e.
!str.empty() && '0' == *str.back() or strlen(str.c_str()) == str.size() or
many others already suggested. Taking address of elements in the string is
simply bad.
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