Re: [Boost-users] Serializing a char *

From: Basilevs (basilevs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-31 23:12:57

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I'm suspecting that there is a confusion about how to seriailzation a
> pointer to
> a null terminated string.  It's natural to want to do something like
>
> char *p;
> ...
> p = "jsdkfjads"
> ...
> ar & p;
>
> because the library syntax encourages one to think that way.
>
> But in this case, one would want
>
> save(...
>    int i = strlen(p);
>    ar << i;
>    ar << binary_object(i, p);
> }
>
> load(...
>    int i;
>    ar >> i;
>    ar >> binary_object(i,p);
> }
>

How do we deal with the trailing null?
In this example trailing null is not saved, and it is a good thing,
but shouldn't we add it after loading?