String.h

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#ifndef STRING_SWITCHING_H
#define STRING_SWITCHING_H
 
/*
This is the file for indication which String class should be used by
the wcpplib library. This library does not depend on very sophisticated
operations with strings. The strings are used for inclusion of notations
or character names in various objects and also for keeping the file names.
The typical string operations used in wcpplib are
initialization from characters array,
convertion to characters array,
initialization from integer number,
and addition of strings.
Such simple operations are either supported by any library or some of them
can be easily added, as done below with STL.
Since the wcpplib was started before the standard library was firmly
established, and because there were many other libraries and it was not
clear which of them will predominate,
the source texts of wcpplib reference the string type by
symbolic name "String" (which seem to be unexisting in all known libraries
except GNU library),
and this type can and must be redefined right here, in this file,
to actual name of string class of actually applied library (except GNU library,
for which it should not be redefined at all).
 
There are currently 3 options.
One is String class from gnu C++ library.
(This library seems to be not supported anymore).
Another is HepString from CLHEP library.
(This collaboration have decided to eliminate strings in favour to std.)
The last is standard library string.
The standard library appears to be the most inconvenient (!) in supporting
the strings. It does not support conversion from integers and long integers
to strings, and it does not support the default conversion of strings to
char*. Therefore when the support of other strings dissappeared,
I had to edit the programs to pass to this "standard".
The first type of conversions is performed by little function long_to_String()
defined as inline below. The second type of conversions is performed
in program with the use of macro USE_STLSTRING and c_str() member function
like this:
 
Example of program:
#ifdef USE_STLSTRING
  ifstream fh(hfile.c_str());    // use standard library
#else
  ifstream fh(hfile);     // most of other libraries
#endif
 
Not convenient! Hope there was real reasons to forbid default conversions in
standard library.
 
 
Copyright (c) 2001 I. B. Smirnov
 
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*/
 
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
 
namespace Heed {
 
typedef std::string String;
 
// puts one \n at the end of string stream:
 
inline void put_one_n(std::ostringstream& ost) {
  long qost = ost.str().length();
  if (qost > 0) {
    if (ost.str()[qost - 1] == '\n') {  // nothing
    } else {
      ost << '\n';
    }
  } else
    ost << '\n';
}
 
}
 
#endif