FA>   Is there any MID$ BASIC-like function in C or C++?
FA>   (I'm using TC and TC++ (both by Borland, of course)....
   There is a complete set of BASIC-like string handling
   routines in SNIPPETS. Simply, however, you may do this.
   I suppose I should have some check for a NULL pointer in
   my constructor as well.
 /*_|_|   MID.CPP   PUBLIC DOMAIN   by Kurt Kuzba   9/21/1997
 _|_|_|   Simple demonstration of a BASIC-like MID$ class.
 _|_|*/
#include 
#include 
class Mid_String
{
public:
   Mid_String(char*, int);
   ~Mid_String(void);
   char *String(void){   return pszM;   }
private:
   char *pszM;
};
Mid_String::Mid_String(char *pszS, int iLen = 0)
{
   int iSlen = strlen(pszS);
   pszM = new char[iSlen];
   strcpy(pszM, pszS);
   if(iLen && iLen < iSlen)
     *(pszM + iLen) = '\0';
}
Mid_String::~Mid_String(void)
{
   delete []pszM;
}
int main(void)
{
   char *pszMystring = "This is a test string";
   Mid_String *Mid = new Mid_String (pszMystring, 5);
   cout String() << flush;
   delete Mid;
   Mid = new Mid_String (pszMystring + 5, 3);
   cout String() << flush;
   delete Mid;
   Mid = new Mid_String (pszMystring + 8, 2);
   cout String() << flush;
   delete Mid;
   Mid = new Mid_String (pszMystring + 10);
   cout String() << flush;
   delete Mid;
   Mid = new Mid_String (pszMystring);
   cout String() << "." << endl;
   return 0;
}
> ] What do you mean, "There is more to life than computers."?..
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