From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:
> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
> news:417696df$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>It was part of the 1998 ISO standard C++. I believe MS Visual C++ 6.0
>>supported it, as did Borland C++ Bulder, gnu g++ 3.2, etc.
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> We are learning using MS Visual C++ 6.0
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> I'll try to be more specific in the future. To me it's still just C++ as I
> hardly know what it includes let alone the difference between different
> versions. Heck I haven't even loaded MSDN Library on my laptop yet..
>
> Geo.
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>

That's fine. So you are more specifically learning *Windows* programming
using C++. Even so, your instructor shouldn't be telling you to use the
obsolete C++ headers. MSVC 6.0 has the newer ones.

She also shouldn't be telling you to use the string functions from the C
standard library such as strcpy. The C++ equivalents based on std::string
are easier to use because you don't have to worry about memory allocation
and pointers. For example, in C++

        std::string myStr = "This is a test";
        std::string myOtherStr = myStr;

vs. C style

        char *myStr = "This is a test";
        char *myOtherStr = malloc(strlen(mystr) + 1);
         strcpy(myOtherStr, myStr);
        free(myOtherStr);

Gregg

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