Re: [Libreoffice] rtl::O[U]StringBuffer now has a "remove" method

On Thursday 30 of June 2011, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> I've added a "remove" method to the O[U]StringBuffers to make it easy to
> remove text from them without painful assembly of a new one by copying
> segments out of an old one.
>
> These StringBuffers were originally modelled after the Java equivalents.
> Since the sal ones were written Java added "delete" methods to their
> string buffers but delete is a reserved c++ keyword, so I called them
> "remove" here.
>
> It takes start position and end position in usual half-open [x,y) style,
> not start position and length though this is clearly the same for an x
> of 0

 Usual style in what way? O[U]StringBuffer don't have any other range 
function, but O[U]String uses start+len for such cases (copy, replaceAt), so 
this seems inconsistent.

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 Lubos Lunak
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