ChangeLogTag: Thu Oct 18 19:52:44 2001 Craig Rodrigues <crodrigu@bbn.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ace/SString.h b/ace/SString.h
index 9ce22c6b077..9327b386b8b 100644
--- a/ace/SString.h
+++ b/ace/SString.h
@@ -590,6 +590,9 @@ public:
    * \a buffer will be parsed.  Notice that ACE_Tokenizer will modify
    * \a buffer if you use <code> delimiter_replace </code> or <code>
    * preserve_designators </code> to do character substitution.
+   * NOTE: You should NOT pass a constant string or string literal
+   * to this constructor, since ACE_Tokenizer will try to modify
+   * the string.
    * \sa preserve_designators
    * \sa preserve_designators
    */
@@ -601,8 +604,11 @@ public:
    *
    * <B>Example:</B>
    * \verbatim
-     ACE_Tokenizer tok ("William/Joseph/Hagins");
-    tok.delimiter ('/');
+     char buf[30];
+     ACE_OS::strcpy(buf, "William/Joseph/Hagins");
+
+     ACE_Tokenizer tok (buf);
+     tok.delimiter ('/');
      for (char *p = tok.next (); p; p = tok.next ())
       cout << p << endl;
     \endverbatim