[wellylug] Programming Question

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 10:38, Jonathan Harker wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Some advice... if you are using C/C++, then you may as well use C++. They are 
> not the same thing, and you can learn C++ without having to learn C. This is 
> handy because you can avoid learning how to fluff about reallocating memory 
> for char* buffers, all the tricks to get around the abysmally insecure 
> printf/scanf family of functions, and so on.
> 
> Instead, you can use the C++ standard library to do string manipulation just 
> as nicely as any other language, and use std::string wherever you would 
> normally use a C style char* string. They handle memory allocation 
> automatically for you.
> 
> #include <string>
> #include <cstdlib>
> using namespace std;
> 
> int main()
> {
>    string myfilename = "path/to/somefile";
>    string mycommand = "touch " + myfilename;
>    system(mycommand);
> }


thanks - I've been programming in c++, but using a lot of old c
functions, like char.


This string function seems to be much better (I HATE using char!!)


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