Marshall Clow <mclow.lists <at> gmail.com> writes:
I'm about to check in some new functionality into the string_algo library; an implementation of string_ref.
A string_ref is a non-owning reference to a string. It is implemented as a {pointer, length} pair, and is
My experience is that we are better of with 2 pointers
exceedingly useful when parsing, and manipulating strings in "read-only" ways.
* This is identical to boost/test/utils/basic_cstring.hpp I use in Boost.Test forever (and all other projects I ever worked on). * I personally like my name better, but I am not attached to it. I also like names like const_string, string_buffer for different specializations * The template should support both char and const char as character types * Feel free to highjack my unit test if you want * There are some extra features in my interface you can consider as well Regards, Gennadiy