Re: "clear" an ostringstream

From:
"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:14:53 +0200
Message-ID:
<8ct6fsFqqbU1@mid.individual.net>
wang wrote:

On 15 Aug., 22:23, "Francesco S. Carta" <entul...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hence there must have been some other problem hanging around when
you posted your original question.


I'm to 99% certain that you are right. Neither oss.str("") nor
oss.str(string()) works with MS VC++6. On Ubuntu Linux with g++,
oss.str(string()) works just fine. I've forgotten if I've tested
with oss.str("") on Linux.
Since I realized that VC++6 doesn't work with ostringstream this
way, I went back to ANSI C and used sprintf() to fulfil my task. I
wanted to write "pure" C++ code, but VC++6 doesn't let me do it.
kwwang


You have just identified one of the biggest problems in writing "pure"
C++ code: VC6.

That is a release published 12 years ago, just before the C++
standard. A decent compiler during the previous millennium, but you
shouldn't be using that now unless soemone is paying you big $$$ for
supporting equally old software.

Current version is VC10.

Bo Persson

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