strings.h

[Miros]

My company does cross platform development.

The Mac and Unix platforms use a header file called "strings.h" which I can't find anywhere on my hard drive. Allegedly, all compilers are supposed to have this header file.

I'm using VC++ 6.0, and have applied some of the service packs, but not all.

Do later versions of VC++ use this file? Exactly what do I have to buy/upgrade?

Rosalie Dieteman

 

[Zyrenthian]

the one that all are supposed to have is <string.h> not plural =)

Matt

 

[stupidog]

use #include <cstring>

 

[Cagliostro]

also you can

#include<string>
using namespace std;
John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[ggreg]

I also use

#include<string.h>

in 6.0

 

[Guest_imported]

I have used both string.h and strings.h
I have not been able to find a strings.h header file that works with Visual C++ 6.0
The dos compiler DJGPP has strings.h but it doesnt work with VC 6.0 and neither does the Unix version(GCC) of strings.h.
I am currently having this same problem. I cannot work in VC 6.0 anymore because I am using functions defined in strings.h and I get fatal errors if I try to include it because it doesn't exist.

For some references to some functions defined in strings.h goto

http://php3.de/manual/function.strncasecmp.php

this the strncasecmp() function that I use.

If anyone can find a strings.h header file that works with VC 6.0 please email it to me at eric_216@yahoo.com

 

[Cagliostro]

string.h is a C language header. It is not the analog of string or strings such as iostream is analog of iostream.h John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md

 

[Guest_imported]

Miros is right String.h and Strings.h are two different headers. I was looking for someway to use strings.h myself with VC++ when I found this I would appreciate anything someone could come up with too.

 

[Guest_imported]

Also the file im trying to convert said something about some compilers not haveing the functions that come with strings.h and and to define a NO_functionname thing for the function. If someone could help me with that that would help as well. Ok ill stop posting so many things now.

 

[Miros]

Our final solution: We put the conditional compile into our dynamically allocated string class, so Windows compilers can use string.h and Mac/Unix compilers can use strings.h.

Thanks for all the info!

Rose/Miros