CString Class

[MinnisotaFreezing]

I have heard the CString class mentiond quite often in these forums, though I have never used them, I do string manipulation with the C functions found in string.h. If CString is easier, I would like to learn to use it, but I am worried about performance hits and compatibility, especially the size of the exe. Anyone have any thoughts on this, am I being over cautious?

Anyone have strong feelings either way?

CJB

 

[ajm2001]

I The CString class does not have an apreciable overhead, and can be more efficient than using the C string handling functions, as it incorporates reference counting, etc (2 identical strings share the same storage). Also the class incorporates many useful functions for string manipulation.

As for .EXE size, if you are using MFC, much of the MFC code uses CStrings internally, so your .EXE probably already includes the CString class code.

Go ahead, try it!!!