"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > Tom mentioned the strchr() function, which does do that. I don't > actually find that surprising given my understanding of the > semantics. That means that the function is promising not to modify > the character array, but is not asserting that it knows the > character array to be immutable. Makes sense to me. It's up to the > caller to assign it to a "const char *" if it knows it passed in an > immutable object. The problem with it of course is that mistaken use could have the effect of casting-away-const, which is exactly what we hoped to prevent. Still, there may not be a better solution.
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