[vtk-developers] vtkSystemTools, vtkString

[David Gobbi]

Hi Andy,

I can see where a reference-counted string might be used in VTK,
but file path decomposition, string searches, etc?  These things
are useful to programmers at the application level, but would they
actually be used from within other VTK classes?

I'm just not quite sure what full-fledged string handling has to
do with a 3D graphics library... if I need to deal with strings
and file systems I already have plenty of tools outside of VTK
to use.

 - David

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Andy Cedilnik wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Can we please start building something like vtkSystemTools?
> Here are some things that could be inside:
> * stat
> * get filename
> * get directory
> * get extension
> ...
>
> Also, I think we need something like vtkString. What I am
> talking about is a reference counted dynamic string class,
> which knows things like concatenation, substring, search
> for char and substring, switch case, ...
>
> Any thought?
>
> 			Andy
>
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