- Preallocate enough space for wxString to store @a nLen characters. This function
- may be used to increase speed when the string is constructed by repeated
- concatenation as in
-
- because it will avoid the need to reallocate string memory many times (in case
- of long strings). Note that it does not set the maximal length of a string - it
- will still expand if more than @a nLen characters are stored in it. Also, it
- does not truncate the existing string (use
- Truncate() for this) even if its current length is
- greater than @e nLen
+ Preallocate enough space for wxString to store @a nLen characters.
+
+ Please note that this method does the same thing as the standard
+ reserve() one and shouldn't be used in new code.
+
+ This function may be used to increase speed when the string is
+ constructed by repeated concatenation as in
+
+ @code
+ // delete all vowels from the string
+ wxString DeleteAllVowels(const wxString& original)
+ {
+ wxString result;
+
+ size_t len = original.length();
+
+ result.Alloc(len);
+
+ for ( size_t n = 0; n < len; n++ )
+ {
+ if ( strchr("aeuio", tolower(original[n])) == NULL )
+ result += original[n];
+ }
+
+ return result;
+ }
+ @endcode
+
+ because it will avoid the need to reallocate string memory many times
+ (in case of long strings). Note that it does not set the maximal length
+ of a string -- it will still expand if more than @a nLen characters are
+ stored in it. Also, it does not truncate the existing string (use
+ Truncate() for this) even if its current length is greater than @a nLen.
+
+ @return @true if memory was successfully allocated, @false otherwise.