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"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
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> Born out of experience. Prehaps I have just seen to much code where the
> result of sizeof or std::string::lenght was stored in an int or long or
> whatever else is just available. The returnvalue for both is size_t.
>
Actually no, the type of std::string::length() is std::string::size_type
which may or may not be std::size_t.  Although, there is nothing necessarily
wrong with putting the value in int or long.  It comes down to knowing your
data.  int is guaranteed to hold a value of at least 65535.