Re: [Boost-users] [string] Are std::string's null terminated?

On 4/8/06, Lynn Allan wrote: Thanks, but that isn't quite my question. I'm interested in the actual internal layout of the data in the actual std::string.

The standard doesn't force any internal representation for std::string. It could be a linked list of characters, if the implementation felt like being evil. ( More likely would be a rope of some kind. ) I would expect, however, that most implementations wil basically keep it as a null-terminated std::vector<char>-like internal representation for simplicity since c_str() is unfortunatly still rampant. ~ Scott