Question

Const-correctness in C++ is still giving me headaches. In working with some old C code, I find myself needing to assign turn a C++ string object into a C string and assign it to a variable. However, the variable is a char * and c_str() returns a const char []. Is there a good way to get around this without having to roll my own function to do it?

edit: I am also trying to avoid calling new. I will gladly trade slightly more complicated code for less memory leaks.

Answer 1

I guess there is always strcpy.

Or use char* strings in the parts of your C++ code that must interface with the old stuff.

Or refactor the existing code to compile with the C++ compiler and then to use std:string.