[Libreoffice] weird code, please advise...

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Olivier,

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 16:02 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> I am stumbling on the following piece of code
> 
>             if (nodepath.getLength() != 0 || !(value >>= nodepath) || nodepath.getLength() == 0)
...
> in configmgr/source/configurationprovider.cxx:204, 
> and nodepath is an rtl::OUString
> 
> is this TRUE always, or did I missed something?

	What you're missing is this mid-mashing operator overloading; whereby
>>= actually assigns a string to nodepath ;-) so what it says to me is:
if the length > 0 and we successfully assign it to something else from
'value' and the result is non zero - then don't fail ;-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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