Re: string array demaged at unknown moment

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: string array demaged at unknown moment
Date	Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:05:50 -0700
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> Jivanmukta <jivanmukta@poczta.onet.pl> writes:
>>     bool get_next_line(std::string &line);
> ...
>>                                                      get_next_line() 
>>returns spoilt line.
>
>   You complain about get_next_line, yet you only show us its
>   declaration, not its implementation. This means that you are
>   still missing basics of C++ class implementation. You need to
>   learn the fundamentals of C++ /before/ you can begin to edit
>   such class implementations.

The fact that the OP didn't show us the implementation of a function
doesn't necessarily imply anything about their knowledge of C++.
We all forget things now and then.

>   One might also add that get_next_line returns a bool, so it
>   can never return a line.

Right, but it takes a std::string by reference, so it can update its
value.  Saying that it "returns" a string is imprecise, but not horribly
so.

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string array demaged at unknown moment Jivanmukta <jivanmukta@poczta.onet.pl> - 2022-07-27 20:58 +0200
  Re: string array demaged at unknown moment Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 13:05 -0700

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