Byte Indices
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Use the following tips:
Working with a bytewise index into a string presents problems similar to those posed by pointer manipulation. Consider this example, which scans a string for a backslash character:
while ( rgch[ i ] != '\\' ) i++;
This might index a trail byte, not a lead byte, and thus it might not point to a
character
.Use the _mbclen function to solve the preceding problem:
while ( rgch[ i ] != '\\' ) i += _mbclen ( rgch + i );
This correctly indexes to a lead byte, hence to a
character
. The_mbclen
function determines the size of a character (1 or 2 bytes).