Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!u1100a!krohn
From: krohn@u1100a.UUCP (Eric Krohn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: OOPS library Strings and char*
Message-ID: <2115@u1100a.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 17:19:58 GMT
References: <2859@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Reply-To: krohn@u1100a.UUCP (Eric Krohn)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
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In article <2859@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> psxgas@nott-cs.UUCP writes:
] Does anyone know how to use the OOPS Strings in standard C++ routines which
] take char* parameters
] 
] For the time being, I've adopted the following solution :
] 
]   filebuf.open((char*) (String_name(0,String_name.length()).ptr()),input);

That's rather ugly!  I've used both of the following
	&String_name[0]
and
	str2str (String_name)

where str2str is defined as:
static const char *str2str (const char *str) { return (str); }
Both expressions have type const char *.
String_name is, of course, declared to be of type String.

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