This is not the actual code, but this represents my problem.
std::string str1 = "head";
char *buffer = "body\0body"; // Original code has nullbytes;
std::string str2 = "foot";
std::vector<char> mainStr(buffer, buffer + strlen(buffer));
I want to put str1 and str2 to mainStr in an order:
headbody\0bodyfoot
So the binary data is maintained. Is this possible to do this?
PS: Thanks for telling the strlen part is wrong. I just used it to represent buffer's length. :)
There should be some way of defining length of data in "buffer". Usually character 0 is used for this and most of standard text functions assume this. So if you use character 0 for other purposes, you have to provide another way to find out length of data.
Just for example:
char buffer[]="body\0body";
std::vector<char> mainStr(buffer,buffer+sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]));
Here we use array because it provides more information that a pointer - size of stored data.
char buffer[] and char buffer*, as sizeof() operates on them differently!You cannot use strlen as it uses '\0' to determine the end of string. However, the following will do what you are looking for:
std::string head = "header";
std::string foot = "footer";
const char body[] = "body\0body";
std::vector<char> v;
v.assign(head.begin(), head.end());
std::copy(body, body + sizeof(body)/sizeof(body[0]) - 1, std::back_inserter<std::vector<char> >(v));
std::copy(foot.begin(), foot.end(), std::back_inserter<std::vector<char> >(v));
Because the character buffer adds an NUL character at the end of the string, you'll want to ignore it (hence the -1 from the last iterator).
btw. strlen will not work if there are nul bytes in your string!
The code to insert into the vector is:
front:
mainStr.insert(mainStr.begin(), str1.begin(), str1.end());
back:
mainStr.insert(mainStr.end(), str2.begin(), str2.end());
With your code above (using strlen will print)
headbodyfoot
EDIT: just changed the copy to insert as copy requires the space to be available I think.
You could use std::vector<char>::insert to append the data you need into mainStr.
Something like this:
std::string str1 = "head";
char buffer[] = "body\0body"; // Original code has nullbytes;
std::string str2 = "foot";
std::vector<char> mainStr(str1.begin(), str1.end());
mainStr.insert(mainStr.end(), buffer, buffer + sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]));
mainStr.insert(mainStr.end(), str2.begin(), str2.end());
Disclaimer: I didn't compile it.
You can use IO streams.
std::string str1 = "head";
const char *buffer = "body\0body"; // Original code has nullbytes;
std::string str2 = "foot";
std::stringstream ss;
ss.write(str1.c_str(), str1.length())
.write(buffer, 9) // insert real length here
.write(str2.c_str(), str2.length());
std::string result = ss.str();
std::vector<char> vec(result.c_str(), result.c_str() + result.length());
str1 and str2 are string objects that write the text.
I wish compilers would fail on statements like the declaration of buffer and I don't care how much legacy code it breaks. If you're still building it you can still fix it and put in a const.
You would need to change your declaration of vector because strlen will stop at the first null character. If you did
char buffer[] = "body\0body";
then sizeof(buffer) would actually give you close to what you want although you'll get the end null-terminator too.
Once your vector mainStr is then set up correctly you could do:
std::string strConcat;
strConcat.reserve( str1.size() + str2.size() + mainStr.size() );
strConcat.assign(str1);
strConcat.append(mainStr.begin(), mainStr.end());
strConcat.append(str2);
if vector was set up using buffer, buffer+sizeof(buffer)-1
mainStr.resize(str1.length() + str2.length() + strlen(buffer));
memcpy(&mainStr[0], &str1[0], str1.length());
memcpy(&mainStr[str1.length()], buffer, strlen(buffer));
memcpy(&mainStr[str1.length()+strlen(buffer)], &str2[0], str2.length());
mainStrvariable as I've said :). It'sstd::vector<char>std::vector? Astd::stringcan also store null characters.