Re: [Dev-C++] Re: newbie string parsing question

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Per Westermark wrote:
> Using C for string manipulation isn't dangerous unless you don't know w=
hat
> to do. Same thing with using a hammer. Don't forget that the majority o=
f
> all operating systems in existence uses C with great success.
>=20
> file >> first_name
>=20
> still gives you the possibility of loading a multi-megabyte text string=
,
> possibly exhausting the available memory.

Is getting a buffer overflow better?

IMO C string manipulation is very awkward, and hard to use. You always ha=
ve to worry about=20
things like:
"Now have I counted that \0 terminating character or not?"
and others.

Why bother with low-level, error prone functions, when C++ introduced the=
 string class to=20
address these problems?

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