Question

Every one know stringstream.str() need a string variable type to store the content of stringstream.str() into it .

I want to store the content of stringstream.str() into char variable or char array or pointer.

Is it possible to do that?

Please, write a simple example with your answer.

Answer 1

Why not just

std::string s = stringstream.str();
const char* p = s.c_str();

?

Edit: Note that you cannot freely give the p outside your function: its lifetime is bound to the lifetime of s, so you may want to copy it.

Edit 2: as @David suggests, copy above means copying of the content, not the pointer itself. There are several ways for that. You can either do it manually (legacy way “inherited” from C) — this is done with the functions like std::strcpy. This way is quite complicated, since it involves manual resources management, which is usually discouraged, since it leads to a more complicated and error-prone code. Or you can use the smart pointers or containers: it can be either std::vector<char> or std::unique_ptr/std::shared_ptr.

I personally would go for the second way. See the discussion to this and @Oli’s answer, it can be useful.