Re: Question on string

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:45:44 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 3, 7:58 pm, Vladyslav Lazarenko <vlazare...@volanttrading.com>
wrote:

On Apr 3, 1:37 pm, peter koch <peter.koch.lar...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3 Apr., 19:17, Odysseas Gabrielides
<greekso...@hotmail.com> wrote:

How can I use unsigned chars in a string object ?


The portable way is by specialising on unsigned char


typedef std::basic_string< unsigned char, std::char_traits<unsigned
int>, std::allocator<unsigned char> > ustring;


Unspecified behavior. It may not compile, and if it does, it is
likely to have different behavior on different machines. (I
seem to recall someone trying it with g++ and VC++ in the French
speaking newsgroup, and getting different behavior.)

The only way to do this portably is something like:

    class MyUnsignedCharTraits { /* ... */ } ;
    typedef std::basic_string< unsigned char, MyUnsignedCharTraits >
                        UCString ;

If you want IO, etc. as well, you'll also have to implement a
lot of locale.

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