Re: C++ string::find functions and size_t

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:47:17 -0800, rik wrote:
> Final question on this topic.  According to the C++ reference, the find
> functions actually return an object of std::string::size_type.  Normally,
> maybe even definitionally, this is the same as std::size_t.  Octave code,
> however, assumes that the bare size_t is the same as std::size_t.  Should
> we care about this?  The gl2ps-render.cc code, that maybe we got from
> somewhere else originally, does use std::size_t.

Yes, this is absolutely safe. Note that std::string::size_type is in
fact the same as std::size_t according to the standard. It's
std::basic_string<c,t,a>::size_type that may differ from std::size_t.

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mike