Re: string and strstream and setw

[Paul Serice]

Maurizio Loreti wrote:
> 
> Your example works perfectly with the g++ developement version
> (20010205 snapshot), after:
> 
> - having replaced the non-standard header <strtream> with the standard
>   one <sstream>;
> 
> - having qualified all symbols belonging to namespace std, i.e. having
>   changed string to std::string, endl to std::endl, and so on;
> 
> - having changed the declaration of a and b to the standard type
>   std::ostringstream from the non-standard one ostrstream;
> 
> - having changed "cout << a;" to "std::cout << a.str();", assuming you
>   want the content of the string stream and not its address in memory;
> 
> - having changed in the same way "cout << b;".

Hello,

I just spent all day struggling with a similar problem, but with
std::string.  I have the latest version g++ out of Debian unstable
(2.95.3).

Could you give the follow code a quick compile to see if your snapshot
has this fixed?

The output I get is as follows:

Hello, World!Goodbye, Cruel World!
Hello, World!                           Goodbye, Cruel World!                   


Thanks
Paul

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#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  const string hello = "Hello, World!";
  const string goodbye = "Goodbye, Cruel World!";

  ios::fmtflags saved_flags = cout.setf(ios::left, ios::adjustfield);

  //
  // Broken on Debian unstable.
  //
  cout << setw(40) << hello
       << setw(40) << goodbye
       << endl;

  //
  // Correct!  Use "C"-style strings with cout and setw()!!!
  //
  cout << setw(40) << hello.c_str()
       << setw(40) << goodbye.c_str()
       << endl;

  cout.flags(saved_flags);

  return 0;
}