Problem with std::string erase function

[Tero Toivanen]

Dear experts,

I am doing code to Solaris 9 system with Forte 6 Update 2 C++ compiler..

I get every now and then segmentation fault in the following code that
removes
heading and trailing white spaces (global variable mLineStr is of type
std::string,
and the program has just the main thread):

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1: void ClassXXX::FunctionYYY (const std::string & inCmd)
2: {
3: mLineStr = inCmd;
4:
5: int tmpSpaceNum = 0;
6: int tmpLength = mLineStr.length();
7:
8: // remove heading white spaces
9: for (int idx1=0; idx1 < tmpLength; idx1++)
10: {
11: if (isspace( mLineStr [idx1] ))
12: {
13: tmpSpaceNum++;
14: }
15: else
16: break;
17: }
18:
19: mLineStr.erase (0, tmpSpaceNum);
20:
21: tmpSpaceNum = 0;
22: tmpLength = mLineStr.length();
23:
24: // remove trailing whites paces
25: for (int idx2=tmpLength-1; idx2 >= 0; idx2--)
26: {
27: if (isspace( mLineStr [idx2] ))
28: {
29: tmpSpaceNum++;
30: }
31: else
32: break; // leave the loop
33:
34: }
35:
36: mLineStr.erase (tmpLength-tmpSpaceNum, tmpSpaceNum);

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Now with mLineStr = "foobar -d jomppe -m4 " there will be segmentation
fault
in the last line with a printing to stderr: "Position 20 is greater than
size 6" . This
segmentation fault does not come every time, but only every now and
then. I guess
the segmentation fault comes because an exception is not catched, but I
cannot
understand the reason for the exception!

Is the memory somehow corrupted or is there some known bugs in erase
function?
After all, in line 22 the length of mLineStr still seems to be 21
characters, but in
line 36 it is for some reason 6...

Thank you very much for any help,

Tero

 

[John Harrison]

Dear experts,

This isn't a chat room, you don't have to keep posting the same message.

Wait a little while and you will get some replies.

FWIW I couldn't see anything wrong with your code.

John