Re: fdo#38838 - Removal/Replacement of the String/UniString with OUString once and for all.

Thanks for all your relevant answers and wiki updates.
I understand the goal is to replace String and its variants by OUString.

My last remaining question is "what is the use of OString? Where/when is it
used in the application?"

Thanks,
Jean-Noël



2013/1/15 Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com> wrote:
> > For example, a
> >
> >     if (String.Search(...) == STRING_NOTFOUND)
> >
> > replaced with
> >
> >     if (OUString.indexOf(...) == STRING_NOTFOUND)
> >
> > will not work.
>
> A even more tricky case is this:
>
> String's functions usually deal silently with out-of-buffer
> stituations, like asking to delete a part that overflow or even is
> entirely outside a string.
> and Search return as indicated above STRING_NOTFOUND that is 0xffff
> i.e the max unsigned value of Xub_StrLen
>
> so some code use this 'feature' to code something like:
>
> pos=String.Search('#')
> String.Erase(pos)
>
> IOW: automated conversion is _not_ an option. String => OUString
> convertion have to be carefully audited by hand, even if 99% of these
> are trivial.
>
>
> Norbert
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