Is it valid, to use std::string to hold binary data, to avoid manual dynamic memory management

Question

Pay attention to base64_decode in http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/common/base64.html

std::string base64_decode(std::string const& encoded_string)
         


        

Answer 1

Yes, you can store any sequence of char in a std::string. That includes any binary data.