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+++ b/bintools/rcomp/inc/ASTRING.H	Tue Oct 27 16:36:35 2009 +0000
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description: 
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef __ASTRING_H__
+#define __ASTRING_H__
+
+#if defined(__MSVCDOTNET__) || defined(__TOOLS2__)
+#include <iostream>
+using std::ostream;
+#else //!__MSVCDOTNET__
+#include <iostream.h>
+#endif //__MSVCDOTNET__
+
+#include "ARRAY.H"
+
+#include "wide.h"
+
+enum ValueIfSubStringNotFound { EStringNotFound = -1 } ;
+
+class RCBinaryStream;
+class NumericValue;
+
+class String : public ArrayItem
+	{
+	friend ostream& operator<< ( ostream& os, const String & a);
+	friend class NumericValue;
+	friend class RCBinaryStream;
+public:
+    enum CharacterSet { UNKNOWN, ASCII, CP1252, CP850, ISOLatin1, ShiftJIS, Unicode, UTF8 };
+
+	String();
+	String(const char* pszText);
+	String(const String& SourceString);
+	~String();
+	void Reset();
+	char& operator[] (unsigned long CharIndex) const;
+	String& operator= (const String & SourceString);
+	String& operator+= (const String & SourceString);
+	String& operator+= (char * SourceChar);
+	int operator== (const String & CompareString) const; 
+	int operator!= (const String & CompareString) const; 
+	String operator+ (const String & SecondString) const;
+	unsigned long Length() const;
+	const char * GetBuffer() const;
+	const char * GetAssertedNonEmptyBuffer() const;
+	int IsDecNatural() const;	// Returns TRUE(1) if all decimal digits (disregards leading -).
+	String& Upper();
+    const unsigned char* UCRep (unsigned long aIndex) const;
+	int FindSubString(String aSubString, int aStart=0);
+	String ExtractSubString(const unsigned int aStart, const unsigned int aFinish);
+	int Atoi();
+
+    // export string to caller-supplied buffer mapping from fromchset.
+    int Export( UTF16 *buffer, int& length, CharacterSet fromchset ) const;
+    unsigned long ExportLength( CharacterSet tochset, CharacterSet fromchset ) const;
+
+private:
+	char* iRep;
+	unsigned long iLength;
+	};
+
+// Compares the binary representation of two strings.
+class StringLess
+	{
+public:
+	bool operator()(const String&, const String&) const;
+	};
+
+extern String::CharacterSet SourceCharacterSet;
+extern String::CharacterSet TargetCharacterSet;
+
+#endif // __ASTRING_H__