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String literals: C/C++ string data types part 2

16 November 202321 February 2024

In the first part of the series on string types in LibreOffice, I discussed some of the string data types that are in use in various places of the LibreOffice code. I discussed various character and string data types briefly: OString, OUString, char/char*, sal_Unicode, sal_Unicode*, rtl_String, rtl_uString and also std::string. Now I want to explain string literals. (more…)

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