From 232d22ae4614c627f37ff6423c1437208f01718c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fred <fred>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:08:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] flower-1.0.1

---
 flower/string.cc | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/flower/string.cc b/flower/string.cc
index cc0e0e6bd8..da4941da7b 100644
--- a/flower/string.cc
+++ b/flower/string.cc
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ String::String( const int i, const int n, const char c )
     // String convd to const char *
 }
 
-String::operator const char *() const
+ const char*
+String::ptr() const
 {
     return data;
 }
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ String::operator >( const Sortable& test ) const
     return strcmp( data, s->data ) > 0;
 }
 #endif
+
 // signed comparison,  analogous to strcmp;
 int
 String::compare( const char* test ) const
@@ -378,3 +380,16 @@ String::reversed() const
     strrev(s);
     return retval;    
 }
+bool
+String::to_bool() const
+{
+    if (!len())
+	return false;
+    if (*this == "0")
+	return false;
+    String u (*this);
+    u.upper();
+    if (u== "FALSE")
+	return false;
+    return true;
+}
-- 
2.39.5