+ //This is kind of inefficient, but its pretty good considering...
+ //we don't want to use character access operators here because on STL
+ //it will freeze the reference count of strTmp, which means a deep copy
+ //at the end when swap is called
+ //
+ //Also, we can't use append with the full character pointer and must
+ //do it manually because this string can contain null characters
+ for(size_t i1 = 0; i1 < nStart; ++i1)
+ strTmp.append(1, this->c_str()[i1]);
+
+ //its safe to do the full version here because
+ //sz must be a normal c string