On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Michael Mastroianni wrote:

> Why not use the string directly in the callback, something like this
>
> size_t WriteMemoryCallbackStdString(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t
> nmemb, void *data)
> {
> register int realsize = size * nmemb;
> string & contents = *(string *)(data);
> contents.append((char *)ptr,realsize);
> return realsize;
> }

That is of course perfectly possible, but this suggestion does exactly that
extra copy that Bharath Devanathan wanted to avoid.

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