Ultimate String and String-List classes

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Introduction

No matter what you code, you will always bump into string management and everyone knows that sometimes it can really be a pain in the ... you know. Well, this article hopes (and I think it succeeds) in making the whole thing easier.

Description

The code presented in this article has the next goals to achieve:

• Manage both UNICODE and ASCII strings and string-lists.
• Provided tools for simple conversion between them.
• Provide a simple wrapper to allow working with them.

Let's go to the next level.

Classes Details

The code contains the following classes with their functions:

• plStringT

  This class is a template class with one param szBlock. The size of the plStringT used memory will always be a multiple of szBlock. When a memory of szBlock is allocated then, as long as the string's length doesn't top this value no memory will be allocated. This is for performance.

  Internal functions are self explanatory and there's no point in describing all the 125 of them.

• plStringList

  This class is for managing string-lists.

  Internal functions are self explanatory and there's no point in describing all the 49 of them.

• plToStringW, plToStringA, plToStringB, plToString

  These are helping classes. Used for conversion.

  Internal functions are self explanatory and there's no point in describing all of them.

• plArrayT, plPointerT

  These are helping classes. An array and a pointer array. The pointer array can also free pointers on deletion.

  Internal functions are self explanatory and there's no point in describing all of them.

How to...

• Append a formatted string:

  plString string;
  string+=plString(_T("%d %s"),100,_T("string"));
  

• Load a file (UNICODE or ASCII):

  plString string;
  string.Load(_T("anytypeoffile.txt"));
  

• Save a UNICODE file:

  plString string;
  string.Save(_T("anytypeoffile.txt"),0/*append*/,1/*UNICODE*/);
  

• Append ASCII string:

  plString string;
  string+=plToString("ascii stuff %d",1000);
  

• Read all lines:

  plString Lines;
  plString Line;
  INT Pos=0;
  while(Lines.ReadLine(Pos,Line))
  {
     _tprintf(_T("%s\r\n",Line.GetString());
  }
  

• Split a text into lines:

  plString Lines;
  plStrings lstLines;
  lstLines.SplitText(Lines,_T("\r\n"),0);
  

Once you get a hold of it you'll be able to do anything. Easy, huh?

History

• 05.02.2005

  First release.

• 07.02.2005

  Fixed some bugs in plArrayT.

For any problems contact me or write here and I`ll look into them quickly . I use this classes extensively and I need them in best shape.