Using std::string_view with api that expects null-terminated string

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I solved this problem by creating an alternate string_view class called zstring_view. It’s privately inherited from string_view and contains much of its interface.

The principal difference is that zstring_view cannot be created from a string_view. Also, any string_view APIs that would remove elements from the end are not part of the interface or they return a string_view instead of a zstring_view.

They can be created from any NUL-terminated string source: std::string and so forth. I even created special user-defined literal suffixes for them: _zsv.

The idea being that, so long as you don’t put a non-NUL-terminated string into zstring_view manually, all zstring_views should be NUL-terminated. Like std::string, the NUL character is not part of the size of the string, but it is there.

I find it very useful for dealing with C interfacing.

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