yes, allocator is part of the type.<div><br></div><div>however...</div><div><br></div><div>1. you can use strings with polymorphic allocator</div><div>2. you can use standard algorithms</div><div>3. you can use strcmp() - my favourite option but I like low lever stuff.</div><div>4. with cpp17 you can convert string to string view then compare string view&#39;s - convertion will be removed from the optimizer and you will get strcmp() under the hood.</div><div>5. with cpp11 you can grab a class like string view and use it. <a href="https://github.com/nmmmnu/HM4/blob/1.0.0/include/stringref.h">https://github.com/nmmmnu/HM4/blob/1.0.0/include/stringref.h</a> (this might not be the newest version i did)</div><div><br></div><div>if you have lots of same comparissons, you can also do custom operator == or whatever you need - or with cpp20 you can do tie fighter &lt;=≥ (spaceship operator)</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know I can show you some examples if you want, just tell me you want equality or greater / less comparisson.</div><div><br></div><div>Nikolay<br><br>On Sunday, September 13, 2020, Robert Behar via Std-Proposals &lt;<a href="mailto:std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org">std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">currently I can&#39;t compare two strings with differing allocators.</div>
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