[open-cobol-list] dual string class written ?

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

I seem to change my mind everyday but at this very moment I am thinking 
that for economic reasons, I'd better get started with the projects I 
need to get done and unfortunately I better do them in C++.

I was thinking of creating a class that would store strings in Cobol 
format, an array of characters with no nul byte and would store the same 
string as a char array with nul byte as well.  This could also be done 
without storing the extra string but just doing conversions on demand.

I was thinking I could build in testing of the types, conversion code 
and perhaps through naming conventions, have C++ methods and Cobol 
programs ready to talk to each other(along with extern "C"). I really 
love Cobol and if I am going to write in another language, I want to lay 
out the welcome mat for Cobol to be reintroduced later.

I was thinking that this might be helpful in laying down code for Cobol 
bindings later too.

So my real question is, has anyone already written something like this? 
If so, could you share it with me?

-Patrick