String, Pair and Map Problem

[dream_noir]

I'm new to C++ programming although I'm pretty familiar with programming in general. I have issue relating to strings I've stored. Essentially I have a map defined as follows.

map<string, string> resources;

I've added a number of elements to it without any problem. Where I run into problems is after retrieving a value and trying to use the string like so.

string s1(resources["width"]);
string s2("x");
s1 += s2;
cout << s1 << endl;

This is a simplified version of my code but it illustrates the problem. If s1 = "1280" and I concatenate s2 onto it I will get the following output "x280" instead of "1280x".

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

[matsp]

Is it possible that you have read the resources from a file, and that the end of each line has a carriage return ('\r' or character 13/0x0D) at the end? That would print 1280\rx, which APPEARS on the screen as x280, since \r means "move the cursor to the very left of the line".

You could print the lenght of the string (on a separate line for ease of reading).

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Mats

[dream_noir]

Thats is exactly. I assumed the carriage return got thrown away. Thank you very much.

[matsp]

Thats is exactly. I assumed the carriage return got thrown away. Thank you very much.

Well, it does if the file is read as text in a Windows/DOS or OS/2 system (and other systems which use the same type of line-endings). Presumably, you either do not read the file that way, or you are using for example Linux and reading a file created in another OS that has different line-endings. It's a mess, but it's been that way for a long time, so we can't easily change it, because all sorts of existing programs would break.

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Mats