Re: Need Container for Large Binary String

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From: M Jared Finder (mfinder_at_digipen.edu)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: 14 Nov 2004 05:40:15 -0500

floobles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to manipulate large binary strings. I would like to use some
> typical array functions (such as find first occurrence,
> insert/replace, etc.)
>
<snip>
>
> I would appreciate some suggestions on which class to use. At this
> point, I'm most likely going with the STL vector, using a for-loop to
> initialize my bytes...(ugh)

Use the constructor of vector that takes a begin iterator and an end
iterator. Pointers are iterators, so you can say
vector<char> v(p, p+length) when given a pointer and a length.

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