Re: const char* to char* conversion
"Sgt. York" <york@frontlines.org> wrote in message
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Noah Roberts wrote:
Azumanga wrote:
Perro Flaco wrote:
Hi!
I've got this:
string str1;
char * str2;
...
str1 = "whatever";
...
str2 = (char *)str1.c_str();
Is this ok? Is there any other better way to do the same? I'm not sure
if I'm doing the rigth thing, so I hope you can help me with this.
Depends what you want to do. In your current situation, you can do the
following:
1) You can pass str2 to functions that expect a char*. However it is
important that nothing changes the string at all.
And the fact that they accept char* instead of const char* indicates
that they will.
Exactly. I see nothing but disaster in store for wanting to cast away
this particular const.
I agree. Unfortunately I use a library with a header which is not const
correct. I've been trying to get the library developer to fix his const
correctness, but so far to little luck.
I wind up using things like:
somefunction( blah, blah, const_cast<char*>( MyString.c_str() ), blah );
and it's quite ugly and I don't like it, but have little choice until he
fixes his library (or I hack the header).
Which brings up a question that is probably OT for this newsgroup. If a
program is linking to a .lib and using a header, can the header be changed
to const correctness even if the calls in the .dll aren't const correctness?
That is, if it is known for a fact that the .dll won't change the data of a
char*, can changing the header to a const char * cause problems? If this is
OT (which it is) just ignore it please.
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