// This file is part of The New Aspell
// Copyright (C) 2001 by Kevin Atkinson under the GNU LGPL license
// version 2.0 or 2.1.  You should have received a copy of the LGPL
// license along with this library if you did not you can find
// it at http://www.gnu.org/.

#ifndef ACOMMON_CHAR_VECTOR__HPP
#define ACOMMON_CHAR_VECTOR__HPP

#include "vector.hpp"
#include "ostream.hpp"

namespace acommon 
{
  class CharVector : public Vector<char>, public OStream
  {
  public:
    void write (char c) {append(c);}
    void write (ParmString str) {append(str, str.size());}
    void write (const char * str, unsigned int size) {append(str, size);}

    void append (char c) {Vector<char>::append(c);}
    void append (const void * d, unsigned int size) 
      {Vector<char>::append(static_cast<const char *>(d), size);}

    //FIXME: Make this more efficent by rewriting the implemenation
    //       to work with more memory rather than using vector<char>
    template <typename Itr>
    void replace(iterator start, iterator stop, Itr rstart, Itr rstop) {
      iterator i = erase(start,stop);
      insert(i, rstart, rstop);
    }

    CharVector & operator << (char c) {
      append(c);
      return *this;
    }
    
  };
}

#endif