From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can someone compile this?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:42:02 -0500
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Michael Schuster wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm desperately searching for a bug in my new 2.8.1 djgpp
> installation, but cannot find it.
> 
> The problem I face is the damn old String class problem which I posted
> already 2 times.
> As I want to know, if I do something wrong, I ask you if someone with
> a 2.8.1  can compile the following little c++ code (which I cnly can
> compile with my 2.7.xx djgpp?
> 
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <_String.h>
> 
> String xc="test2";
> char d[25]="dummy";
> 
> int main()
> {
>    xc=d;
>    strcpy(d,xc);
>    cout<<d;
> }

Note that the following will work and may be what you want:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

string xc = "test2";
char d[25] = "dummy";

int main()
{
    xc = d;
    strcpy(d, xc.c_str());
    cout << d << endl;
}

Martin Ambuhl (mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net)
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