Question

    char       *buffer1 = "abc";

    const char *buffer2 = (const char*) buffer;

    std :: string str (buffer2);

This works, but I want to declare the std::string object i.e. str, once and use it many times to store different const char*.

What’s the way out?

Answer 1

You can just re-assign:

const char *buf1 = "abc";
const char *buf2 = "def";

std::string str(buf1);

str = buf2; // Calls str.operator=(const char *)