Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Chapter 40. String Object Concatenation

	And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
	--Isaac Asimov

	Luck favors the prepared!
	--Edna Mole

Introduction

In several of my projects I have had occasion to tokenize out string fragments from composite strings and then package them up again in a different form. We saw in Chapter 27 how tokenization can be effected easily and efficiently. Using the component described here, the tokens can be just as easily packaged up again.

Whereas we looked at how to write an output iterator for C-style string concatenation in the previous chapter, now we’re going to look at the more object-oriented ...