Strings

[Reza A]

Can anyone explain why when Visual Studio creates code that has to use
strings it puts a S before every string?
Example

System::Console::WriteLine(S"Hello World");

S is a .NET string, right?

Wheras L is wide.

Dont ya love this "feature" of C++.

There are 354893258237598584584 types of strings. Pick your poison.
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Can anyone explain why when Visual Studio creates code that has to use
strings it puts a S before every string?
Example

System::Console::WriteLine(S"Hello World");

[Reza A]

The book doesn't cover anything of that sort, so I dont know what you're
talking about. Care to explain some more?

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S is a .NET string, right?

Wheras L is wide.

Dont ya love this "feature" of C++.

There are 354893258237598584584 types of strings. Pick your poison.
"Reza A" <re*****@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Can anyone explain why when Visual Studio creates code that has to use
strings it puts a S before every string?
Example

System::Console::WriteLine(S"Hello World");

[Tim Smelser]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:58:49 GMT, Reza A wrote:

Can anyone explain why when Visual Studio creates code that has to use
strings it puts a S before every string?
Example

System::Console::WriteLine(S"Hello World");

The S means that it is a string literal which can provide a boost in
performance. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sSpec_11_2.asp

for details.

Tim
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To email me, make the snot hot.

[Hendrik Schober]

Reza A <re*****@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

The book doesn't cover anything of that sort, so I dont know what you're
talking about. Care to explain some more?
Is it a book on Managed C++?
This
System::Console::WriteLine(S"Hello World");
seems to be what's called MC++. If
your book is on std C++, you won't
find this in there. In that case
you should decide what you want to
learn and either (a) don't use MC++
or (b) buy a book on MC++.

FWIW, in std C++ you do this instead:
std::cout << "Hello, World!";
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Schobi

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