// extract string of length nCount starting at nFirst
wxString wxString::Mid(size_t nFirst, size_t nCount) const
{
- size_t nLen = length();
+ size_t nLen = length();
- // default value of nCount is npos and means "till the end"
- if ( nCount == npos )
- {
- nCount = nLen - nFirst;
- }
+ // default value of nCount is npos and means "till the end"
+ if ( nCount == npos )
+ {
+ nCount = nLen - nFirst;
+ }
- // out-of-bounds requests return sensible things
- if ( nFirst + nCount > nLen )
- {
- nCount = nLen - nFirst;
- }
+ // out-of-bounds requests return sensible things
+ if ( nFirst + nCount > nLen )
+ {
+ nCount = nLen - nFirst;
+ }
- if ( nFirst > nLen )
- {
- // AllocCopy() will return empty string
- nCount = 0;
- }
+ if ( nFirst > nLen )
+ {
+ // AllocCopy() will return empty string
+ return wxEmptyString;
+ }
- wxString dest(*this, nFirst, nCount);
- if ( dest.length() != nCount ) {
- wxFAIL_MSG( _T("out of memory in wxString::Mid") );
- }
+ wxString dest(*this, nFirst, nCount);
+ if ( dest.length() != nCount )
+ {
+ wxFAIL_MSG( _T("out of memory in wxString::Mid") );
+ }
- return dest;
+ return dest;
}
// check that the string starts with prefix and return the rest of the string
// vsnprintf() may return either -1 (traditional Unix behaviour) or the
// total number of characters which would have been written if the
// buffer were large enough
- //
- // and it may also set errno to EOVERFLOW apparently (which system does
- // this?)
- if ( (len >= 0 && len <= size)
-#ifdef EOVERFLOW
- && errno != EOVERFLOW
-#endif
- )
+ if ( len >= 0 && len <= size )
{
// ok, there was enough space
break;
}
+#ifdef EOVERFLOW
+ // if the error is not due to not having enough space (it could be e.g.
+ // EILSEQ), break too -- we'd just eat all available memory uselessly
+ if ( errno != EOVERFLOW )
+ {
+ // no sense in continuing
+ break;
+ }
+#endif // EOVERFLOW
+
// still not enough, double it again
size *= 2;
}