Re: Using std::basic_string the extensible way

From:
cbarron3@ix.netcom.com (Carl Barron)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:46:09 CST
Message-ID:
<1hwzmjp.j3xdk31pt9shiN%cbarron3@ix.netcom.com>
Stefan Chrobot <jan_ek@op.pl> wrote:

Hello!

I'm writing a class that contains a string. But I decided to make it
more extensible and turn it into a class template:

template<typename CharT>
class My
{
     std::basic_string<CharT> text;
};

How do I operate on such a string, so that it will work for any valid
instantiation of basic_string? For example, I'd like to append some text
to the end of the string or check if the first letter is lowercase.

Currently I'm doing:
     text += "some other text";
For wstring I should probably do:
     test += L"some other text";
How do I do it in a generic way?

Stefan Chrobot


any basic_string or a
basic_string<CharT,std::char_traits<CharT>,std::allocator<CharT> > ?

basic_string has three template parameters so any would require
three template parameters.

template <class CharT.class Tr = std::char_traits<CharT>,
         class Alloc = std::allocator<CharT> >
struct My
{
         typedef typename std::basic_string<<CharT, Tr, Alloc>
string_type;
         void foo(const string_type &x)
         {
             text += x;
         }
         string_type text;
};

this does both.

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