Hi,
I would like to know if STL has a string class and
if it will provide any support for internationalization.
I use Borland 5.0 (windows) and gcc (Linux). Borland
has string class, but I am not sure if it is now
a standard STL feature or it is just borland's
implememtation of the string class. I read
Lippmans second eddition C++ Primer -- but it does not
say that string is a standard C++ library
(like iostream) -- so I though may be it is
the STL that provides the string support;


Thanks in advance,
Vladislav



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vladik@casi-rusco.com (Vladislav S Papayan) writes:

>I would like to know if STL has a string class and
>if it will provide any support for internationalization.

The C++ standard library includes a string class, and support for
internationalization.  These are in chapters 21 and 22 of the C++
committee's draft working paper.  The term "STL" (Standard Template
Library) is normally used to refer to just those parts of the standard
which were introduced in the proposal by Alexander Stepanov (et al),
namely chapters 23 (containers), 24 (iterators), and 25 (algorithms).

However, even though the string class predates the STL proposal, the
string class has now been modified so that it conforms to the
requirements of an STL container.

I'm pretty sure that the original HP implementation of STL did not
include a string class.

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