get rid of dead code, some new functions constify variables.

[features.git] / src / font.C

diff --git a/src/font.C b/src/font.C
index 96cb595f00ba7e7077737dd1762988584fad77c2..076f16d7b26507ae8ef73e829291de89c974bd8b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/font.C
+++ b/src/font.C
@@ -155,10 +155,10 @@ int lyxfont::width(char const * s, int n, LyXFont const & f)
 int lyxfont::signedWidth(string const & s, LyXFont const & f)
 {
        if (s.empty()) return 0;
-       if (s.c_str()[0] == '-')
-               return -width(s.c_str() + 1, s.length() - 1, f);
+       if (s[0] == '-')
+               return -width(s.substr(1, s.length() - 1), f);
        else
-               return width(s.c_str(), s.length(), f);
+               return width(s, f);
 }