Again, it's a matter of how you treat strings. Using the standard library functions to deal with strings is lazy, and eventually will cause problems(tm) in the

Again, it's a matter of how you treat strings. Using the standard library functions to deal with strings is lazy, and eventually will cause problems(tm) in the future. It's better to be proactive about it and roll your own functions to deal with it. At worst, you've wasted extra time reimplementing a library function.