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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:38:43 -0700
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: strstream str() problem
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Koen_Van_Herck AT xircom DOT com wrote:
> 
> fails to properly terminate the string s. (output is "test
> first\ngarbagegarbage...test\ngarbage..." It seems the str() function does
> not append the '\0' terminator to the string correctly. Is this a bug, or
> am I doing something wrong ?

if you have iostream.inf installed, take a look at it. The short answer:
if
you want the string null terminated, you need to do it yourself. the
info file
suggests
		 os << ends;