Tuesday 10 December 2002 — This is almost 22 years old. Be careful.
Here’s a handy fact about the C++ Standard Template Library that I didn’t know: a char* (or any other pointer) is a valid iterator. This is because it is all templates, and iterators are anything that supports increment (++), and indirection (*); and whose elements support things like equality (==) and assignment (=).
For example, to search one chunk of memory for another chunk:
#include <algorithm>
char * pBuf = /* start of buffer to search */
char * pBufEnd = /* just past end of buffer */
char * pFind = /* data to find */
char * pFindEnd = /* just past end of data */
char * pFound = std::search(pBuf, pBufEnd, pFind, pFindEnd);
Just be careful: if the data isn’t found, search returns pBufEnd, not NULL!
Found this in the C++ forum at Experts Exchange.
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