Re: direct access to ns[C]String buffer

Brodie Thiesfield wrote:

> Is there any way to get direct access to a buffer in a string class
> similar to the MFC CString::GetBuffer()/CString::ReleaseBuffer() pair?
>
> terminated string into it. I want to assign this string to a nsCString
> which is returned from the interface. The easiest way would be to
> request the string to have the max size buffer, write the data 

The "proper" way is to allocate the buffer and fill it, then use the 
ns[C]String .Adopt() member function.  The ns[C]String class then owns 
the buffer and will deallocate it when deleted.

-Ben Smedberg