From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strstream str() problem
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:05:46 -0800
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Koen_Van_Herck AT xircom DOT com wrote:

> The following code
	...
> fails to properly terminate the string s. (output is "test
> first\ngarbagegarbage...test\ngarbage..." It seems the str() function
> does
> not append the '\0' terminator to the string correctly. Is this a bug,
> or
> am I doing something wrong ?

You need to terminate it yourself, with

    os << ends;

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