From 8a21d95f5ba329c59228924f0271922b26a47d57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Karatarakis <alkarata@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:27:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce cstring_view and cwstring_view

---
 toolsrc/include/vcpkg_Strings.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/toolsrc/include/vcpkg_Strings.h b/toolsrc/include/vcpkg_Strings.h
index abf3651e5e..879542a94e 100644
--- a/toolsrc/include/vcpkg_Strings.h
+++ b/toolsrc/include/vcpkg_Strings.h
@@ -2,6 +2,40 @@
 
 #include <vector>
 
+namespace vcpkg
+{
+    struct cstring_view
+    {
+        cstring_view(const char* cstr) : cstr(cstr) {}
+        cstring_view(const std::string& str) : cstr(str.c_str()) {}
+
+        operator const char*() const { return cstr; }
+
+        const char* c_str() const { return cstr; }
+
+    private:
+        const char* cstr;
+    };
+
+    inline const char* to_printf_arg(const cstring_view spec) { return spec.c_str(); }
+
+
+    struct cwstring_view
+    {
+        cwstring_view(const wchar_t* cstr) : cstr(cstr) {}
+        cwstring_view(const std::wstring& str) : cstr(str.c_str()) {}
+
+        operator const wchar_t*() const { return cstr; }
+
+        const wchar_t* c_str() const { return cstr; }
+
+    private:
+        const wchar_t* cstr;
+    };
+
+    inline const wchar_t* to_wprintf_arg(const cwstring_view spec) { return spec.c_str(); }
+}
+
 namespace vcpkg::Strings::details
 {
     inline const char* to_printf_arg(const std::string& s)