> It's number of characters, not bytes, and it includes the termination -
> I'm inclined to declare like this:
> wchar_t buff[128]={0};
>After about 17 years since I wrote C/C++ all those sorts of tricks and traps are just a distant memory. I spent a few more hours trying to read utf-8 text lines in modern C++ but there are so many conflicting suggestions and arguments that I haven't even written a single experiment line of code yet ... I just don't even know where to start. In recent weeks I've been watching lots of C++ videos and reading lots of articles, in the hope that I would learn how to read utf-8 text lines out of Azure blobs using modern C++, but so far every experiment has failed utterly. I got one library to list blobs in a container, but any attempts to read anything by any means out of a blob as a stream fail abysmally. Another more modern library by Jeffrey Richter and his team looks promising, but after 4 hours of futile attempts I cannot even get it compile, let alone try it out. I've also been reading about all the C++ enhancements added to C++ in 17 and 20, and I'm shocked by what's going on. C++ has turned into "The Blob" and is absorbing every feature of every other language in existence and wrapping the mountains of abstractions in more and more abstruse syntax. I enjoyed writing C++ back in the days when it was "C with classes", but now it's a monstrosity and only the most skilled developers could possibly learn to write it correctly. I think I know what's gone wrong with C++ ... Bjarne and Herb and all their fanboys are using C++ as a kind of academic playground for computer science and programming languages. I can't believe that typical C++ developers out in the real world would possibly need or want the hundreds of features that the Committee have added to C++ in the last 10 years. And it's not over ... there are dozens of more complex features being finalised now. "Modules" will effectively turn C++ into something more like Java and C#. They've even admitted that C++ syntax is complex so they're inventing ways of making all the statements more terse, which just takes long complex statements and turns them into short complex statements. Eventually C++ will finish-up like Haskell or APL. It's nuts. Sunday rant over -- *Greg*
