[prog] C++ Problem

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Mon Apr 7 08:15:28 EST 2003


> Preferable for the C language, I assume?  I would imagine for C++, most
> would prefer your suggestion of std::string.

Right--I personally think C-style string handling should be Considered
Harmful.  The less I use C-style string handling, the better I feel.

> Even your suggestion above is incorrect.  You assume a->vehicle_name is at
> least as large as name.  If it were less than 20 characters, then you're

I no longer have the original message, but weren't both fields declared
as char[20]s?





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