John Nagle wrote:

That's a much better approach than the previous one. It's sound C++, and it's simple. All the operations go in string_base. fixed_string need only allocate space.

I have now checked in a working implementation of the approach I suggested. It uses a trick to pass the information to the implementation via the basic_string_impl class and has a complicated implementation of swap (non-virtual :)!). The only functions not available to [w]char_string are substr and +, but these are available in fixed_string itself. I have also fixed the problems with fsstring.hpp and Borland, since Borland may make strcpy, etc macro functions to its intrinsic versions (__strcpy__, etc.) Regards, Reece _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/