Thanks for all your relevant answers and wiki updates. I understand the goal is to replace String and its variants by OUString.
My last remaining question is "what is the use of OString? Where/when is it used in the application?" Thanks, Jean-Noël 2013/1/15 Norbert Thiebaud <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> 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, even if 99% of these > are trivial. > > > Norbert > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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