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Section: 23.4.3.7.8 [string.swap] Status: Dup Submitter: Nico Josuttis Opened: 1998-09-29 Last modified: 2016-11-12
Priority: Not Prioritized
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Duplicate of: 5
Discussion:
The following compare() description is obviously a bug:
int compare(size_type pos, size_type n1,
charT *s, size_type n2 = npos) const;
because without passing n2 it should compare up to the end of the string instead of comparing npos characters (which throws an exception)
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