Re: [Libreoffice] Replace (Byte|Uni|Xub_)String with O(U)String: Fill() method is missing

On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 09:15 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> However, I would also be sceptical that there are that many places that 
> actually need to construct such an (immutable!) string---maybe at least 
> some of the places are misguided attempts at preallocating some buffer 
> of a given length?  Those should then be rewritten to use 
> rtl::OUStringBuffer instead.

Worth noting that the ByteString Fill and Expand are now removed. So its
just String that retains Fill/Expand.

I handled the ByteString::Fill generally on a case-by-case basis. e.g.
565587eba10a8c4e01d4346669327bd9065c5dfa where the idea was simply to
write 512 0's to disk

Generally IIRC StringBuffers were the way to go. You can find
padToLength in comphelper/inc/string.hxx which expands a buffer to the
desired length and pads it with the requested character, which is pretty
much an equivalent to the "Expand" concept anyway.

C.