X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..88594d02eb59a55ac85d3210a49d02918124617b:/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex index e57912e91a..b40d241257 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tstring.tex @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ wxString is a class which represents a character string of arbitrary length (lim arbitrary characters. The ASCII NUL character is allowed, although care should be taken when passing strings containing it to other functions. -wxString only works with ASCII (8 bit characters) strings as of this release, -but support for UNICODE (16 but characters) is planned for the next one. +wxString works with both ASCII (8 bit characters) as well as UNICODE (16 but +characters) strings. This class has all the standard operations you can expect to find in a string class: dynamic memory management (string extends to accommodate new characters), @@ -131,18 +131,19 @@ variables. \subsection{Other string related functions and classes} -As most programs use character strings, the standard C library provides quite a -few functions to work with them. Unfortunately, some of them have rather -counter-intuitive behaviour (like strncpy() which doesn't always terminate the resulting -string with a NULL) and are in general not very safe (passing NULL to them will -probably lead to program crash). Moreover, some very useful functions are not -standard at all. This is why in addition to all wxString functions, there are -also a few global string functions which try to correct these problems: -\helpref{IsEmpty()}{IsEmpty} verifies whether the string is empty (returning -TRUE for NULL pointers), \helpref{Strlen()}{Strlen} also handles NULLs correctly -and returns 0 for them and \helpref{Stricmp()}{Stricmp} is just a -platform-independent version of case-insensitive string comparison function -known either as stricmp() or strcasecmp() on different platforms. +As most programs use character strings, the standard C library provides quite +a few functions to work with them. Unfortunately, some of them have rather +counter-intuitive behaviour (like strncpy() which doesn't always terminate the +resulting string with a NULL) and are in general not very safe (passing NULL +to them will probably lead to program crash). Moreover, some very useful +functions are not standard at all. This is why in addition to all wxString +functions, there are also a few global string functions which try to correct +these problems: \helpref{wxIsEmpty()}{wxisempty} verifies whether the string +is empty (returning {\tt TRUE} for {\tt NULL} pointers), +\helpref{wxStrlen()}{wxstrlen} also handles NULLs correctly and returns 0 for +them and \helpref{wxStricmp()}{wxstricmp} is just a platform-independent +version of case-insensitive string comparison function known either as +stricmp() or strcasecmp() on different platforms. The {\tt } header also defines \helpref{wxSnprintf}{wxsnprintf} and \helpref{wxVsnprintf}{wxvsnprintf} functions which should be used instead