On Tuesday 15 of January 2013, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Eike Rathke <er...@redhat.com> wrote: > > For example, a > > > > if (String.Search(...) == STRING_NOTFOUND) > > > > replaced with > > > > if (OUString.indexOf(...) == STRING_NOTFOUND) > > > > will not work. > > A even more tricky case is this: > > String's functions usually deal silently with out-of-buffer > stituations, like asking to delete a part that overflow or even is > entirely outside a string. > and Search return as indicated above STRING_NOTFOUND that is 0xffff > i.e the max unsigned value of Xub_StrLen > > so some code use this 'feature' to code something like: > > pos=String.Search('#') > String.Erase(pos) > > IOW: automated conversion is _not_ an option. String => OUString > convertion have to be carefully audited by hand,
What you wrote above is AFAIK not written down anywhere, not in the wiki page, not in the (non-existent) String class documentation, so any bets on what the reality is? Could you please add these cases to the strings wiki page? -- Lubos Lunak l.lu...@suse.cz _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice