Why was std::strstream deprecated?

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Published on 2010-05-12T15:21:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 15:24 UTC
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I recently discovered that std::strstream has been deprecated in favor of std::stringstream. It's been a while since I've needed it, but it was useful in its way for what I needed to do at the time.

My question is why was this decision made, and what benefits does std::stringstream provide that are absent from std::strstream?

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