Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Chapter 39. C-Style String Concatenation

	I may not agree with what you say but I shall defend your right to say it to the death.
	--Voltaire

	I too was concocting this very same plan; already our minds are becoming one!
	--Puss-in-boots,Shrek 2

Motivation

In the previous chapter we looked at how the Pantheios library core used member_selector_iterator for calculating the total logging entry string length from the array of string slices (pan_slice_t const*), via the standard library algorithm accumulate(). In this chapter we’re going to look at the other major part of the logging operation: concatenation of the string slices into the allocated buffer, using the standard library algorithm copy(). Let’s dive straight in and look at the function implementation ...