A sometimes handy alternative to boost::string_ref.
Note: I've started a more modern version of this (fisherro::zstring_view) within cpplibxml2
Like boost::string_ref† (and built on top of it), but...
- Does have a c_str function.
- Can only be constructed from a NUL-terminated string. (Note that std::string counts.)
- Cannot be constructed from a pointer and a length.
- Lacks substr.
- Lacks remove_suffix.
†Or std::experimental::string_view. Not much like gsl::string_view.
Because I want most of the benefits of boost::string_ref, but with the ability to write...
void legacy_function(const char*);
void my_function(zstring_ref z)
{
legacy_function(z.c_str());
}
It is just a header: sz_ref.hpp. It requires boost::string_ref.