dox/Common/vtkStdString.h

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/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkStdString.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __vtkStdString_h
#define __vtkStdString_h

#include "vtkSystemIncludes.h" // For VTK_COMMON_EXPORT.
#include <string>       // For the superclass.

class vtkStdString;
VTK_COMMON_EXPORT ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const vtkStdString&);

// Workaround for a difference between GCC visibility and MSVC dllexport
// Not setting the visibility of this class caused the
// vtkArrayIteratorTemplate<vtkStdString> symbols to be hidden on Apple GCC 4.2
// but exporting would cause failure on MSVC 10 (works either way with GCC 4.4
#if defined(__APPLE__) && __GNUC__ >=4
class VTK_COMMON_EXPORT vtkStdString : public std::string
#else
class vtkStdString : public std::string
#endif
{
public:
  typedef std::string StdString;
  typedef StdString::value_type             value_type;
  typedef StdString::pointer                pointer;
  typedef StdString::reference              reference;
  typedef StdString::const_reference        const_reference;
  typedef StdString::size_type              size_type;
  typedef StdString::difference_type        difference_type;
  typedef StdString::iterator               iterator;
  typedef StdString::const_iterator         const_iterator;
  typedef StdString::reverse_iterator       reverse_iterator;
  typedef StdString::const_reverse_iterator const_reverse_iterator;

  vtkStdString(): StdString() {}
  vtkStdString(const value_type* s): StdString(s) {}
  vtkStdString(const value_type* s, size_type n): StdString(s, n) {}
  vtkStdString(const StdString& s, size_type pos=0, size_type n=npos):
    StdString(s, pos, n) {}

  operator const char *() { return this->c_str(); }
};

#endif