Re: [Boost-users] Boost string algorithms binary-safety

From: Leon Mergen (leon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-29 05:34:28

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 19:07 +0200, Pavol Droba wrote:
> > I need to replace patterns in a string with contains (partially) binary
> > data. Is it safe to use the Boost string algorithms for it ? I wasn't
> > able to find anything about binary-safety of the string algorithms in
> > the Boost documentation.
> Boost.StringAlgo does not perform any string specific processing on the input.
> So you can safely use them on binary data. There is actualy also an example of
> simple rle compression using string algorithms. You can find it in 
> boost/libs/algorithm/string/example/ directory.

Ok, thanks for the information!

Regards,

Leon Mergen