Re: [Mingw-users] missing npos

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Don Pellegrino wrote:
> 
> Accoring to "The C++ Programming Language - Special Edition" by Stroustrup (p595) a string.find() that fails to find anything should return npos - which represents an illegal character position.  My mingw doesn't seem to know this npos thing.  I got around it by comparing the answer to a find I knew would fail, if they are equal not found.  But if npos is laying around somewhere and I missed it let me know.  It would be a nice thing to have.

It should be there. I use string::npos all the time, after
including <string>, which in turn includes
 \gcc-2.95.2-1\include\g++-3\std\bastring.h
which defines it.

BTW, it would be easier to read your message if you made
the lines wrap.