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<HTML>
<head><title>wxString</title></head>

<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<A NAME="wxstring"></A><CENTER>
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<H2>wxString</H2>
<P>
wxString is a class representing a character string. Please see the 
<A HREF="wx280.htm#wxstringoverview">wxString overview</A> for more information about it. As explained
there, wxString implements about 90% of methods of the std::string class (iterators
are not supported, nor all methods which use them).
These standard functions are not documented in this manual so please see the STL documentation.
The behaviour of all these functions is identical to the behaviour described
there.<P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Derived from</FONT></B><P>
None<P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Include files</FONT></B><P>
&lt;wx/string.h&gt;<P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Predefined objects</FONT></B><P>
Objects:<P>
<B>wxEmptyString</B><P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">See also</FONT></B><P>
<A HREF="wx280.htm#wxstringoverview">Overview</A><P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Function groups</FONT></B><P>
<A HREF="#topic868">Constructors and assignment operators</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic869">String length</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic870">Character access</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic871">Concatenation</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic872">Comparison</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic873">Substring extraction</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic874">Case conversion</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic875">Searching and replacing</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic876">Writing values into the string</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic877">Memory management</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic878">Miscellaneous</A><BR>
<A HREF="#topic879">wxWindows 1.xx compatiblity functions</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringat">std::string compatibility functions</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringconstruct">wxString::wxString</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringdestruct">wxString::~wxString</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringalloc">wxString::Alloc</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringappend">wxString::Append</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringafterfirst">wxString::AfterFirst</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringafterlast">wxString::AfterLast</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringbeforefirst">wxString::BeforeFirst</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringbeforelast">wxString::BeforeLast</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcstr">wxString::c_str</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringclear">wxString::Clear</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcmp">wxString::Cmp</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcmpnocase">wxString::CmpNoCase</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcompareto">wxString::CompareTo</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcontains">wxString::Contains</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringempty">wxString::Empty</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringfind">wxString::Find</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringfirst">wxString::First</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringfreq">wxString::Freq</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringgetchar">wxString::GetChar</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringgetdata">wxString::GetData</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringgetwritablechar">wxString::GetWritableChar</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringgetwritebuf">wxString::GetWriteBuf</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringindex">wxString::Index</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringisascii">wxString::IsAscii</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringisempty">wxString::IsEmpty</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringisnull">wxString::IsNull</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringisnumber">wxString::IsNumber</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringissameas">wxString::IsSameAs</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringisword">wxString::IsWord</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringlast">wxString::Last</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringleft">wxString::Left</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringlen">wxString::Len</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringlength">wxString::Length</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringlower">wxString::Lower</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringlowercase">wxString::LowerCase</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringmakelower">wxString::MakeLower</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringmakeupper">wxString::MakeUpper</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringmatches">wxString::Matches</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringmid">wxString::Mid</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringpad">wxString::Pad</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringprepend">wxString::Prepend</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringprintf">wxString::Printf</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringprintfv">wxString::PrintfV</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringremove">wxString::Remove</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringremovelast">wxString::RemoveLast</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringreplace">wxString::Replace</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringright">wxString::Right</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringsetchar">wxString::SetChar</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringshrink">wxString::Shrink</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringsprintf">wxString::sprintf</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringstrip">wxString::Strip</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringsubstring">wxString::SubString</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringtrim">wxString::Trim</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringtruncate">wxString::Truncate</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringungetwritebuf">wxString::UngetWriteBuf</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringupper">wxString::Upper</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringuppercase">wxString::UpperCase</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatornot">wxString::operator!</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorassign">wxString::operator =</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorplus">operator wxString::+</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringplusequal">wxString::operator +=</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorbracket">wxString::operator []</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorparenth">wxString::operator ()</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorout">wxString::operator <<</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorin">wxString::operator >></A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringoperatorconstcharpt">wxString::operator const char*</A><BR>
<A HREF="#wxstringcomparison">Comparison operators</A><BR>
<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic868"></A>
<H3>Constructors and assignment operators</H3>
<P>
A strign may be constructed either from a C string, (some number of copies of)
a single character or a wide (UNICODE) string. For all constructors (except the
default which creates an empty string) there is also a corresponding assignment
operator.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringconstruct">wxString</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorassign">operator =</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringdestruct">~wxString</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic869"></A>
<H3>String length</H3>
<P>
These functions return the string length and check whether the string is empty
or empty it.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlen">Len</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisempty">IsEmpty</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatornot">operator!</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringempty">Empty</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringclear">Clear</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic870"></A>
<H3>Character access</H3>
<P>
Many functions in this section take a character index in the string. As with C
strings and/or arrays, the indices start from 0, so the first character of a
string is string[0]. Attempt to access a character beyond the end of the
string (which may be even 0 if the string is empty) will provocate an assert
failure in <A HREF="wx295.htm#debuggingoverview">debug build</A>, but no checks are done in
release builds.<P>
This section also contains both implicit and explicit conversions to C style
strings. Although implicit conversion is quite convenient, it is advised to use
explicit <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcstr">c_str()</A> method for the sake of clarity. Also
see <A HREF="wx280.htm#wxstringadvices">overview</A> for the cases where it is necessary to
use it.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringgetchar">GetChar</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringgetwritablechar">GetWritableChar</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringsetchar">SetChar</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlast">Last</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorbracket">operator []</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcstr">c_str</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorconstcharpt">operator const char*</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic871"></A>
<H3>Concatenation</H3>
<P>
Anything may be concatenated (appended to) with a string. However, you can't
append something to a C string (including literal constants), so to do this it
should be converted to a wxString first.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorout">operator <<</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringplusequal">operator +=</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorplus">operator +</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringappend">Append</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringprepend">Prepend</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic872"></A>
<H3>Comparison</H3>
<P>
The default comparison function <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmp">Cmp</A> is case-sensitive and
so is the default version of <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringissameas">IsSameAs</A>. For case
insensitive comparisons you should use <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmpnocase">CmpNoCase</A> or
give a second parameter to IsSameAs. This last function is may be more
convenient if only equality of the strings matters because it returns a boolean
true value if the strings are the same and not 0 (which is usually FALSE in C)
as Cmp does.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmatches">Matches</A> is a poor man's regular expression matcher:
it only understands '*' and '?' metacharacters in the sense of DOS command line
interpreter.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmp">Cmp</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmpnocase">CmpNoCase</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringissameas">IsSameAs</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmatches">Matches</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic873"></A>
<H3>Substring extraction</H3>
<P>
These functions allow to extract substring from this string. All of them don't
modify the original string and return a new string containing the extracted
substring.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmid">Mid</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorparenth">operator()</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringleft">Left</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringright">Right</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringbeforefirst">BeforeFirst</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringbeforelast">BeforeLast</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringafterfirst">AfterFirst</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringafterlast">AfterLast</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic874"></A>
<H3>Case conversion</H3>
<P>
The MakeXXX() variants modify the string in place, while the other functions
return a new string which containts the original text converted to the upper or
lower case and leave the original string unchanged.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmakeupper">MakeUpper</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringupper">Upper</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmakelower">MakeLower</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlower">Lower</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic875"></A>
<H3>Searching and replacing</H3>
<P>
These functions replace the standard <I>strchr()</I> and <I>strstr()</I> 
functions.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringfind">Find</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringreplace">Replace</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic876"></A>
<H3>Writing values into the string</H3>
<P>
Both formatted versions (<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringprintf">Printf</A>) and stream-like
insertion operators exist (for basic types only).<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringprintf">Printf</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringprintfv">PrintfV</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringoperatorout">operator <<</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic877"></A>
<H3>Memory management</H3>
<P>
These are "advanced" functions and they will be needed quite rarily. 
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringalloc">Alloc</A> and <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringshrink">Shrink</A> are only
interesting for optimization purposes. 
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringgetwritebuf">GetWriteBuf</A> may be very useful when working with
some external API which requires the caller to provide a writable buffer, but
extreme care should be taken when using it: before performing any other
operation on the string <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringungetwritebuf">UngetWriteBuf</A> <B>
must</B> be called!<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringalloc">Alloc</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringshrink">Shrink</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringgetwritebuf">GetWriteBuf</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringungetwritebuf">UngetWriteBuf</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic878"></A>
<H3>Miscellaneous</H3>
<P>
Other string functions.<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringtrim">Trim</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringpad">Pad</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringtruncate">Truncate</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="topic879"></A>
<H3>wxWindows 1.xx compatiblity functions</H3>
<P>
These functiosn are deprecated, please consider using new wxWindows 2.0
functions instead of them (or, even better, std::string compatible variants).<P>
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringsubstring">SubString</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringsprintf">sprintf</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcompareto">CompareTo</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlength">Length</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringfreq">Freq</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlowercase">LowerCase</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringuppercase">UpperCase</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringstrip">Strip</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringindex">Index</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringremove">Remove</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringfirst">First</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringlast">Last</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcontains">Contains</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisnull">IsNull</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisascii">IsAscii</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisnumber">IsNumber</A><BR>

<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisword">IsWord</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringat"></A>
<H3>std::string compatibility functions</H3>
<P>
The supported functions are only listed here, please see any STL reference for
their documentation.<P>
<PRE>
    // take nLen chars starting at nPos
  wxString(const wxString& str, size_t nPos, size_t nLen);
    // take all characters from pStart to pEnd (poor man's iterators)
  wxString(const void *pStart, const void *pEnd);

  // lib.string.capacity
    // return the length of the string
  size_t size() const;
    // return the length of the string
  size_t length() const;
    // return the maximum size of the string
  size_t max_size() const;
    // resize the string, filling the space with c if c != 0
  void resize(size_t nSize, char ch = '\0');
    // delete the contents of the string
  void clear();
    // returns true if the string is empty
  bool empty() const;

  // lib.string.access
    // return the character at position n
  char at(size_t n) const;
    // returns the writable character at position n
  char& at(size_t n);

  // lib.string.modifiers
    // append a string
  wxString& append(const wxString& str);
    // append elements str[pos], ..., str[pos+n]
  wxString& append(const wxString& str, size_t pos, size_t n);
    // append first n (or all if n == npos) characters of sz
  wxString& append(const char *sz, size_t n = npos);

    // append n copies of ch
  wxString& append(size_t n, char ch);

    // same as `this_string = str'
  wxString& assign(const wxString& str);
    // same as ` = str[pos..pos + n]
  wxString& assign(const wxString& str, size_t pos, size_t n);
    // same as `= first n (or all if n == npos) characters of sz'
  wxString& assign(const char *sz, size_t n = npos);
    // same as `= n copies of ch'
  wxString& assign(size_t n, char ch);

    // insert another string
  wxString& insert(size_t nPos, const wxString& str);
    // insert n chars of str starting at nStart (in str)
  wxString& insert(size_t nPos, const wxString& str, size_t nStart, size_t n);

    // insert first n (or all if n == npos) characters of sz
  wxString& insert(size_t nPos, const char *sz, size_t n = npos);
    // insert n copies of ch
  wxString& insert(size_t nPos, size_t n, char ch);

    // delete characters from nStart to nStart + nLen
  wxString& erase(size_t nStart = 0, size_t nLen = npos);

    // replaces the substring of length nLen starting at nStart
  wxString& replace(size_t nStart, size_t nLen, const char* sz);
    // replaces the substring with nCount copies of ch
  wxString& replace(size_t nStart, size_t nLen, size_t nCount, char ch);
    // replaces a substring with another substring
  wxString& replace(size_t nStart, size_t nLen,
                    const wxString& str, size_t nStart2, size_t nLen2);
    // replaces the substring with first nCount chars of sz
    wxString& replace(size_t nStart, size_t nLen,
                      const char* sz, size_t nCount);

    // swap two strings
  void swap(wxString& str);

    // All find() functions take the nStart argument which specifies the
    // position to start the search on, the default value is 0. All functions
    // return npos if there were no match.

    // find a substring
  size_t find(const wxString& str, size_t nStart = 0) const;

    // find first n characters of sz
  size_t find(const char* sz, size_t nStart = 0, size_t n = npos) const;

    // find the first occurence of character ch after nStart
  size_t find(char ch, size_t nStart = 0) const;

    // rfind() family is exactly like find() but works right to left

    // as find, but from the end
  size_t rfind(const wxString& str, size_t nStart = npos) const;

    // as find, but from the end
  size_t rfind(const char* sz, size_t nStart = npos,
          size_t n = npos) const;
    // as find, but from the end
  size_t rfind(char ch, size_t nStart = npos) const;

    // find first/last occurence of any character in the set

    //
  size_t find_first_of(const wxString& str, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    //
  size_t find_first_of(const char* sz, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    // same as find(char, size_t)
  size_t find_first_of(char c, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    //
  size_t find_last_of (const wxString& str, size_t nStart = npos) const;
    //
  size_t find_last_of (const char* s, size_t nStart = npos) const;
    // same as rfind(char, size_t)
  size_t find_last_of (char c, size_t nStart = npos) const;

    // find first/last occurence of any character not in the set

    //
  size_t find_first_not_of(const wxString& str, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    //
  size_t find_first_not_of(const char* s, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    //
  size_t find_first_not_of(char ch, size_t nStart = 0) const;
    //
  size_t find_last_not_of(const wxString& str, size_t nStart=npos) const;
    //
  size_t find_last_not_of(const char* s, size_t nStart = npos) const;
    //
  size_t find_last_not_of(char ch, size_t nStart = npos) const;

    // All compare functions return a negative, zero or positive value
    // if the [sub]string is less, equal or greater than the compare() argument.

    // just like strcmp()
  int compare(const wxString& str) const;
    // comparison with a substring
  int compare(size_t nStart, size_t nLen, const wxString& str) const;
    // comparison of 2 substrings
  int compare(size_t nStart, size_t nLen,
              const wxString& str, size_t nStart2, size_t nLen2) const;
    // just like strcmp()
  int compare(const char* sz) const;
    // substring comparison with first nCount characters of sz
  int compare(size_t nStart, size_t nLen,
              const char* sz, size_t nCount = npos) const;

  // substring extraction
  wxString substr(size_t nStart = 0, size_t nLen = npos) const;
</PRE>
<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringconstruct"></A>
<H3>wxString::wxString</H3>
<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>()<P>
Default constructor.<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>)<P>
Copy constructor.<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> n = 1</I>)<P>
Constructs a string of <I>n</I> copies of character <I>ch</I>.<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> nLength = wxSTRING_MAXLEN</I>)<P>
Takes first <I>nLength</I> characters from the C string <I>psz</I>.
The default value of wxSTRING_MAXLEN means take all the string.<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>(<B>const unsigned char*</B><I> psz</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> nLength = wxSTRING_MAXLEN</I>)<P>
For compilers using unsigned char: takes first <I>nLength</I> characters from the C string <I>psz</I>.
The default value of wxSTRING_MAXLEN means take all the string.<P>
<B></B> <B>wxString</B>(<B>const wchar_t*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
Constructs a string from the wide (UNICODE) string.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringdestruct"></A>
<H3>wxString::~wxString</H3>
<P>
<B></B> <B>~wxString</B>()<P>
String destructor. Note that this is not virtual, so wxString must not be inherited from.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringalloc"></A>
<H3>wxString::Alloc</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>Alloc</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> nLen</I>)<P>
Preallocate enough space for wxString to store <I>nLen</I> characters. This function
may be used to increase speed when the string is constructed by repeated
concatenation as in<P>
<PRE>
// delete all vowels from the string
wxString DeleteAllVowels(const wxString& original)
{
    wxString result;

    size_t len = original.length();

    result.Alloc(len);

    for ( size_t n = 0; n &lt; len; n++ )
    {
        if ( strchr("aeuio", tolower(original[n])) == NULL )
            result += original[n];
    }

    return result;
}

</PRE>
because it will avoid the need of reallocating string memory many times (in case
of long strings). Note that it does not set the maximal length of a string - it
will still expand if more than <I>nLen</I> characters are stored in it. Also, it
does not truncate the existing string (use 
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringtruncate">Truncate()</A> for this) even if its current length is
greater than <I>nLen</I><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringappend"></A>
<H3>wxString::Append</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Append</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
Concatenates <I>psz</I> to this string, returning a reference to it.<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Append</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>, <B>int</B><I> count = 1</I>)<P>
Concatenates character <I>ch</I> to this string, <I>count</I> times, returning a reference
to it.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringafterfirst"></A>
<H3>wxString::AfterFirst</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>AfterFirst</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Gets all the characters after the first occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the empty string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringafterlast"></A>
<H3>wxString::AfterLast</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>AfterLast</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Gets all the characters after the last occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the whole string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringbeforefirst"></A>
<H3>wxString::BeforeFirst</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>BeforeFirst</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Gets all characters before the first occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the whole string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringbeforelast"></A>
<H3>wxString::BeforeLast</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>BeforeLast</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Gets all characters before the last occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the empty string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringcstr"></A>
<H3>wxString::c_str</H3>
<P>
<B>const char *</B> <B>c_str</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns a pointer to the string data.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringclear"></A>
<H3>wxString::Clear</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>Clear</B>()<P>
Empties the string and frees memory occupied by it.<P>
See also: <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringempty">Empty</A><P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringcmp"></A>
<H3>wxString::Cmp</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>Cmp</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Case-sensitive comparison.<P>
Returns a positive value if the string is greater than the argument, zero if
it si equal to it or negative value if it is less than argument (same semantics
as the standard <I>strcmp()</I> function).<P>
See also <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmpnocase">CmpNoCase</A>, <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringissameas">IsSameAs</A>.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringcmpnocase"></A>
<H3>wxString::CmpNoCase</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>CmpNoCase</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Case-insensitive comparison.<P>
Returns a positive value if the string is greater than the argument, zero if
it si equal to it or negative value if it is less than argument (same semantics
as the standard <I>strcmp()</I> function).<P>
See also <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmp">Cmp</A>, <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringissameas">IsSameAs</A>.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringcompareto"></A>
<H3>wxString::CompareTo</H3>
<P>
<PRE>
#define NO_POS ((int)(-1)) // undefined position
enum caseCompare {exact, ignoreCase};
</PRE>
<B>int</B> <B>CompareTo</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>, <B>caseCompare</B><I> cmp = exact</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Case-sensitive comparison. Returns 0 if equal, 1 if greater or -1 if less.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringcontains"></A>
<H3>wxString::Contains</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>Contains</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns 1 if target appears anyhere in wxString; else 0.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringempty"></A>
<H3>wxString::Empty</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>Empty</B>()<P>
Makes the string empty, but doesn't free memory occupied by the string.<P>
See also: <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringclear">Clear()</A>.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringfind"></A>
<H3>wxString::Find</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>Find</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>, <B>bool</B><I> fromEnd = FALSE</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Searches for the given character. Returns the starting index, or -1 if not found.<P>
<B>int</B> <B>Find</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> sz</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Searches for the given string. Returns the starting index, or -1 if not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringfirst"></A>
<H3>wxString::First</H3>
<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>First</B>(<B>char</B><I> c</I>)<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>First</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>) <B>const</B><P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>First</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>) <B>const</B><P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>First</B>(<B>const char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns the first occurrence of the item.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringfreq"></A>
<H3>wxString::Freq</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>Frec</B>(<B>char </B><I>ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns the number of occurences of it ch in the string.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringgetchar"></A>
<H3>wxString::GetChar</H3>
<P>
<B>char</B> <B>GetChar</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> n</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns the character at position <I>n</I> (read-only).<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringgetdata"></A>
<H3>wxString::GetData</H3>
<P>
<B>const char*</B> <B>GetData</B>() <B>const</B><P>
wxWindows compatibility conversion. Returns a constant pointer to the data in the string.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringgetwritablechar"></A>
<H3>wxString::GetWritableChar</H3>
<P>
<B>char&amp;</B> <B>GetWritableChar</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> n</I>)<P>
Returns a reference to the character at position <I>n</I>.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringgetwritebuf"></A>
<H3>wxString::GetWriteBuf</H3>
<P>
<B>char*</B> <B>GetWriteBuf</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> len</I>)<P>
Returns a writable buffer of at least <I>len</I> bytes.<P>
Call <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringungetwritebuf">wxString::UngetWriteBuf</A> as soon as possible
to put the string back into a reasonable state.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringindex"></A>
<H3>wxString::Index</H3>
<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Index</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>, <B>int</B><I> startpos = 0</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Same as <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringfind">wxString::Find</A>.<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Index</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> sz</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Same as <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringfind">wxString::Find</A>.<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Index</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> sz</I>, <B>bool</B><I> caseSensitive = TRUE</I>, <B>bool</B><I> fromEnd = FALSE</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Search the element in the array, starting from either side.<P>
If <I>fromEnd</I> is TRUE, reverse search direction.<P>
If <B>caseSensitive</B>, comparison is case sensitive (the default).<P>
Returns the index of the first item matched, or NOT_FOUND.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringisascii"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsAscii</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsAscii</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string is ASCII.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringisempty"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsEmpty</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsEmpty</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string is NULL.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringisnull"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsNull</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsNull</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string is NULL (same as IsEmpty).<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringisnumber"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsNumber</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsNumber</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string is a number.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringissameas"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsSameAs</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsSameAs</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>, <B>bool</B><I> caseSensitive = TRUE</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Test for string equality, case-sensitive (default) or not.<P>
caseSensitive is TRUE by default (case matters).<P>
Returns TRUE if strings are equal, FALSE otherwise.<P>
See also <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmp">Cmp</A>, <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringcmpnocase">CmpNoCase</A>.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringisword"></A>
<H3>wxString::IsWord</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>IsWord</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string is a word. TODO: what's the definition of a word?<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringlast"></A>
<H3>wxString::Last</H3>
<P>
<B>char</B> <B>Last</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns the last character.<P>
<B>char&amp;</B> <B>Last</B>()<P>
Returns a reference to the last character (writable).<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringleft"></A>
<H3>wxString::Left</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Left</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> count</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns the first <I>count</I> characters.<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Left</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns all characters before the first occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the whole string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringlen"></A>
<H3>wxString::Len</H3>
<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Len</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns the length of the string.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringlength"></A>
<H3>wxString::Length</H3>
<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Length</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns the length of the string (same as Len).<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringlower"></A>
<H3>wxString::Lower</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Lower</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns this string converted to the lower case.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringlowercase"></A>
<H3>wxString::LowerCase</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>LowerCase</B>()<P>
Same as MakeLower.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringmakelower"></A>
<H3>wxString::MakeLower</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>MakeLower</B>()<P>
Converts all characters to lower case.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringmakeupper"></A>
<H3>wxString::MakeUpper</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>MakeUpper</B>()<P>
Converts all characters to upper case.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringmatches"></A>
<H3>wxString::Matches</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>Matches</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> szMask</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns TRUE if the string contents matches a mask containing '*' and '?'.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringmid"></A>
<H3>wxString::Mid</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Mid</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> first</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> count = wxSTRING_MAXLEN</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns a substring starting at <I>first</I>, with length <I>count</I>, or the rest of
the string if <I>count</I> is the default value.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringpad"></A>
<H3>wxString::Pad</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Pad</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> count</I>, <B>char</B><I> pad = ' '</I>, <B>bool</B><I> fromRight = TRUE</I>)<P>
Adds <I>count</I> copies of <I>pad</I> to the beginning, or to the end of the string (the default).<P>
Removes spaces from the left or from the right (default).<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringprepend"></A>
<H3>wxString::Prepend</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Prepend</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>)<P>
Prepends <I>str</I> to this string, returning a reference to this string.<P>

<HR>
<A NAME="wxstringprintf"></A>
<H3>wxString::Printf</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>Printf</B>(<B>const char* </B><I>pszFormat</I>, <B></B><I>...</I>)<P>
Similar to the standard function <I>sprintf()</I>. Returns the number of
characters written, or an integer less than zero on error.<P>
<B>NB:</B> This function will use a safe version of <I>vsprintf()</I> (usually called 
<I>vsnprintf()</I>) whenever available to always allocate the buffer of correct
size. Unfortunately, this function is not available on all platforms and the
dangerous <I>vsprintf()</I> will be used then which may lead to buffer overflows.<P>

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<H3>wxString::PrintfV</H3>
<P>
<B>int</B> <B>PrintfV</B>(<B>const char* </B><I>pszFormat</I>, <B>va_list</B><I> argPtr</I>)<P>
Similar to vprintf. Returns the number of characters written, or an integer less than zero
on error.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Remove</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Remove</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> pos</I>)<P>
Same as Truncate. Removes the portion from <I>pos</I> to the end of the string.<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Remove</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> pos</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> len</I>)<P>
Removes the last <I>len</I> characters from the string, starting at <I>pos</I>.<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringremovelast"></A>
<H3>wxString::RemoveLast</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>RemoveLast</B>()<P>
Removes the last character.<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringreplace"></A>
<H3>wxString::Replace</H3>
<P>
<B>size_t</B> <B>Replace</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> szOld</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> szNew</I>, <B>bool</B><I> replaceAll = TRUE</I>)<P>
Replace first (or all) occurences of substring with another one.<P>
<I>replaceAll</I>: global replace (default), or only the first occurence.<P>
Returns the number of replacements made.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Right</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Right</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> count</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns the last <I>count</I> characters.<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Right</B>(<B>char</B><I> ch</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Returns all characters after the last occurence of <I>ch</I>.
Returns the whole string if <I>ch</I> is not found.<P>

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<H3>wxString::SetChar</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>SetChar</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> n</I>, <B>char</B><I>ch</I>)<P>
Sets the character at position <I>n</I>.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Shrink</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>Shrink</B>()<P>
Minimizes the string's memory. This can be useful after a call to 
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringalloc">Alloc()</A> if too much memory were preallocated.<P>

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<H3>wxString::sprintf</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>sprintf</B>(<B>const char* </B><I> fmt</I>)<P>
The same as Printf.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Strip</H3>
<P>
<PRE>
enum stripType {leading = 0x1, trailing = 0x2, both = 0x3};
</PRE>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Strip</B>(<B>stripType</B><I> s = trailing</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Strip characters at the front and/or end. The same as Trim except that it
doesn't change this string.<P>

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<H3>wxString::SubString</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>SubString</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> to</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> from</I>) <B>const</B><P>
Same as <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringmid">Mid</A>.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Trim</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Trim</B>(<B>bool</B><I> fromRight = TRUE</I>)<P>
Removes spaces from the left or from the right (default).<P>

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<H3>wxString::Truncate</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>Truncate</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> len</I>)<P>
Truncate the string to the given length.<P>

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<H3>wxString::UngetWriteBuf</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>UngetWriteBuf</B>()<P>
Puts the string back into a reasonable state, after
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringgetwritebuf">wxString::GetWriteBuf</A> was called.<P>

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<H3>wxString::Upper</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>Upper</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Returns this string converted to upper case.<P>

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<H3>wxString::UpperCase</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>UpperCase</B>()<P>
The same as MakeUpper.<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringoperatornot"></A>
<H3>wxString::operator!</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator!</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Empty string is FALSE, so !string will only return TRUE if the string is empty.
This allows the tests for NULLness of a <I>const char *</I> pointer and emptyness
of the string to look the same in the code and makes it easier to port old code
to wxString.<P>
See also <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringisempty">IsEmpty()</A>.<P>

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<H3>wxString::operator =</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator =</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator =</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator =</B>(<B>char</B><I> c</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator =</B>(<B>const unsigned char*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator =</B>(<B>const wchar_t*</B><I> pwz</I>)<P>
Assignment: the effect of each operation is the same as for the corresponding
constructor (see <A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringconstruct">wxString constructors</A>).<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringoperatorplus"></A>
<H3>operator wxString::+</H3>
<P>
Concatenation: all these operators return a new strign equal to the sum of the
operands.<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>operator +</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>operator +</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>operator +</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>char</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>operator +</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>

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<H3>wxString::operator +=</H3>
<P>
<B>void</B> <B>operator +=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>)<P>
<B>void</B> <B>operator +=</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
<B>void</B> <B>operator +=</B>(<B>char</B><I> c</I>)<P>
Concatenation in place: the argument is appended to the string.<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringoperatorbracket"></A>
<H3>wxString::operator []</H3>
<P>
<B>char&amp;</B> <B>operator []</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> i</I>)<P>
<B>char</B> <B>operator []</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> i</I>)<P>
<B>char</B> <B>operator []</B>(<B>int</B><I> i</I>)<P>
Element extraction.<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringoperatorparenth"></A>
<H3>wxString::operator ()</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString</B> <B>operator ()</B>(<B>size_t</B><I> start</I>, <B>size_t</B><I> len</I>)<P>
Same as Mid (substring extraction).<P>

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<A NAME="wxstringoperatorout"></A>
<H3>wxString::operator <<</H3>
<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>const char*</B><I> psz</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>char </B><I>ch</I>)<P>
Same as +=.<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>int</B><I> i</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>float</B><I> f</I>)<P>
<B>wxString&amp;</B> <B>operator <<</B>(<B>double</B><I> d</I>)<P>
These functions work as C++ stream insertion operators: they insert the given
value into the string. Precision or format cannot be set using them, you can use 
<A HREF="wx224.htm#wxstringprintf">Printf</A> for this.<P>

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<H3>wxString::operator >></H3>
<P>
<B>friend istream&amp;</B> <B>operator >></B>(<B>istream&amp;</B><I> is</I>, <B>wxString&amp;</B><I> str</I>)<P>
Extraction from a stream.<P>

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<H3>wxString::operator const char*</H3>
<P>
<B></B> <B>operator const char*</B>() <B>const</B><P>
Implicit conversion to a C string.<P>

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<H3>Comparison operators</H3>
<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator ==</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator ==</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator !=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator !=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &gt;</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &gt;</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &gt;=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &gt;=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &lt;</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &lt;</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &lt;=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> y</I>)<P>
<B>bool</B> <B>operator &lt;=</B>(<B>const wxString&amp;</B><I> x</I>, <B>const char*</B><I> t</I>)<P>
<B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Remarks</FONT></B><P>
These comparisons are case-sensitive.<P>

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