<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Gabor Greif wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">>><i> Thanks, but the problem is that c_str() is slow :), please switch </i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Courier">>><i> to &S[0] (which is the thing that doesn't work if S is empty)</i></font></div><div><br></div>wouldn't S.begin() serve better?<div><br></div></div></blockquote>std::string::iterator isn't required to be const char*.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Chris</div></body></html>