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From: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: bug in istrstream example?
Message-ID: <1991May11.015836.1556@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 May 91 01:58:36 GMT
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In both Lippman (p. 414) and the cfront 2.0 Library Manual (p 3.12) examples
roughly of the form
  char s[] = "400"
  istrstream iss (s,sizeof(s));
appear. Presumably, sizeof is a bug (since this will always return the size of
a pointer when applied to an array), and what is really required is strlen(s) -
or should it be strlen(s)+1 to allow for the null char at the end?

Has this been fixed in later editions / printings?

Philip Machanick