Latest String Algorithms Articles

Digging Into C++ String Stream Processing

By Manoj Debnath - Published 05/12/2017

Learn about string processing schemes as supplied by C++ standard library.

Tip: String Wrapper for Formatted String Output in C++

By Michael Furman - Published 08/07/2008

Learn how to construct a simple and lean string class wrapper that allows you to send formatted output to a string directly.

URI Encoding and Decoding

By Jin Qing - Published 11/02/2006

Learn about fast and portable URI encoding and decoding functions that use std::string as the argument and return type, and do the buffer conversion, including '\0'.

Flex Your Lexical Analysis Muscles

By Victor Volkman - Published 10/09/2006

The Flex lexical analyzer generator enables you to accurately act on and react to incoming character data streams in a way that is both predictable and debuggable.

Managed Extensions: Parsing CSV Files with Regular Expressions

By Tom Archer - MSFT - Published 09/10/2004

Tom Archer illustrates how to parse comma-delimited text—when the data contains quotes, commas, and blanks—and return the data in a managed array.

Receiving & Converting Numeric and String Data via Sockets

By Tom Archer - MSFT - Published 03/26/2004

Many times a remote system will send a numeric value indicating the length of the data to be received in subsequent receive commands. However, when you start sending and receiving numeric data via sockets, you have to be aware of conversion issues in terms of what type of machine is on the other end of the connection.