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Rodeo Red wrote:

> yes I really don't need the functions right now, but I always wondered
> where they were. Thanks for clearing that up. 

It turns out that the source is there anyway if you want to see it -
it's in the file c:\djgpp\lang\cxx\std\bastring.cc.  (I don't know why
that's there though, since I'm sure DJGPP just uses the library file.)

> It appears I misunderstood the text of Lippman and Lajoie - I just want
> to emphasize that as far as I can tell it is a good reliable book. I've
> had my share of bad book so I appreciate it. 
> they used 
> replace( vec.begin(), vec.end(), oldval, newval);
>  whre old val and new val are strings, in a vector. I mistakenly used
> replace (str.begin(), str.end(), oldval, newval) ;
> 
> Which doesn't work because old val and new val are strings in a
> string.    
>  I'm still a little confused with the terminology- 
> A string is a container but each character is an element in itself -
> right ?

Things such as deques, lists, queues, stacks, vectors, sets, maps, etc.
are containers.  The standard doesn't seem to refer to basic_strings as
containers[*], but they are clearly containers of a sort.  The items held
in a container (or a basic_string) are called elements.  Of course, you
can have types like vector<list<string>> where the elements are themselves
containers.

[*] mainly, I think, because there are severe restrictions on what they
can contain