Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness
by stephc_int13 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:29PM
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No, I simply am using a different approach, still in C, where strings are simple char*, null-terminated, nothing hidden with magic fields above the base address of the string.
The trick is to pass an allocator (or container) to string handling functions.
If/when I want to get rid of all the garbage I reset the container/allocator.
If you’re not convinced of the practicality, it sounds like you are simply not convinced of the practicality of doing string processing in C at all, which is a fair view point. String processing in C is somewhat a minefield. Libraries like Git’s strbuf are very effective relative to other solutions in C, but lack safety relative to other languages.