Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 16:31:26 +0100 (MET)
From: Tobias =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ro=DFmann?= <t DOT rossmann AT gmx DOT at>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: Converting a string to a char *
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string::c_str returns a const char*. Thus, your first mistake was to
declare
b as char* without casting the returned value. Then you wrote
*b = *s.c_str(). This meant: assign the first character of string s to the
value pointed to by b. This is probably neither what you wanted to do, nor
is
it a good idea to use uninitialized pointers. The correct way would be to
assign the value returned from c_str to the pointer (not the pointed to
data).

int
main()
{
  string s = "test";
  const char *b;
  b = s.c_str();
  cout << b;
  return (0);
}

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