Subj : Re: string comparison
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Sebastian Ledesma" <labo(no_sp@m)solidyne1.com>
Date : Tue Nov 25 2003 11:54 am

I will prefer:
newstring = new char[strlen(passed)+1];

Also, sometimes i prefer to use:
  set_new_handler(0);
this ensures that a fail in the allocation didnt throw a exception, instead
it returns NULL (as lot of code expect).

Saludos
Sebastian

"Base8" <Base8@base8.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:3fc29913$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Thanks to all who responded.  My thoughts on the assert( newstring != 0 )
;
> are as follows (please correct me
> if I have an incorrect understanding) :-).   The assert is used during
> testing and debugging to verify that memory
> is being allocated appropriately for the requested data type.  It gets
taken
> out at compile time with a #define NDEBUG
> which causes the assertions to be ignored.  Am I incorrect here?  BTW, I
> knew it was simple, I used the isalpha as below.
>
> int StrPass::Passed(char *passed)
> {
>   newstring = new char[ sizeof(passed + 1 )] ;
>   assert( newstring != 0 ) ;
>   if(strlen(passed) >= 5 && strlen(passed) <= 8 )
>   if( isalpha(passed[0] ))
>    { strcpy(newstring, passed) ;
>    return 0 ;  }
>   else return -1 ;
> }
>

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