On Fri, 25 May 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm generally a C programmer, so sorry if this is a painful question.
>
> i'm having a hard time finding man or info pages on C++. on C, it's easy.
> if i wanted to know how to find a substring, i would do "man string" which
> would lead me to a bunch of functions like index() and strstr().
>
> i guess what i'm asking is, is there a way to list out all the methods that
> belong to a particular class? in the string example, i was going to convert
> the C++ string into a C string and use strstr, but if this was the way things
> are done, i might as well just use C.
info libg++
I can't say I have used it much myself, since I tend to refer to books,
but there seems to be quite a bit there.
> using google, i found the substr method. but firing up a browser everytime i
> want to learn how to do something isn't exactly a good answer too.
>
> it took me forever to figure out that bastring.h is what i want to look at,
> but even this isn't a good answer. C++ header files look like a giant mess
> to my eyes.
The templatization of the header files has reduced their usefulness as
reference material, in my opinion. However, the benefits of templates
are substantial, so docs seem to be the best solution.
> i'm thinking that there's prolly some documentation on my system that i don't
> know about.
I guess so. I don't care for the info program myself... I much prefer a
good browser. :) But FSF prefers info, so there the docs be.
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