Re: Why crash ?

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:34:26 -0700
Message-ID:
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"Polaris" <etpolaris@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ewiZpQtpGHA.1548@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Hi Experts:

I have a a few lines of code and it crashes everytime at the line marked
below. The code just converts a string into upper case string. Any help is
appriciated.

Thanks In Advance!
Polaris

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main (int argc, wchar_t *argv[])
{
   wchar_t *str = L"abcdefghijklmn";

   // transfer str to upper case

   wstring sUpper;
   int len = (int) wcslen (str);

   for (int i=0; i<=len; i++)
       sUpper[i] = towupper (str[i]); // crash here when i = 11

   return 0;
}


As others said, thats because you don't have any chars allocated in sUpper.
What I would do is just change it to:

    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
        sUpper += towupper (str[i]);

Notice that I corrected it to i < len (arrays in C and C++ are zero bound).

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