Now that strings are part of C++ will the functions that handle
char * be overloaded to handle strings, too?

An example would be the getline function.  Currently, it takes
a char * argument to hold the characters read from cin.

Note that

cin >> stringVar

is only satisfactory for people whose programs only handle one word
of input at a time.

Ray Swartz

In article 2q1@darkstar.UCSC.EDU, ray@cse.ucsc.edu (Ray Swartz) writes:
>Now that strings are part of C++ will the functions that handle
>char * be overloaded to handle strings, too?

Some functions, yes, but certainly not all of them (the <string.h>
functions won't, for example).

>An example would be the getline function.  Currently, it takes
>a char * argument to hold the characters read from cin.

Yes. At the last meeting, the C++ committee voted to add a string
version of getline.

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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com