Question

Hi everyone I have the following line:

string* playerInfo = "Name: " + firstName + " " + lastName + "\n" +
                        "Number: " + playerNumber + "\n" +
                        "Points: " + pointTotal + "\n";

where firstName, lastName, playernumber, pointTotal are all string pointers.

How can I put them all together into another string pointer? The compiler complains about my line of code.

Sorry, I’m not good with C++ I come from a Java background.

Answer 1

Use less pointers. That would have worked if all your variables were just strings. But since you say you have pointers:

string playerInfo = "Name: " + *firstName + " " + *lastName + "\n" +
                    "Number: " + *playerNumber + "\n" +
                    "Points: " + *pointTotal + "\n";

One of the first habits you should break when moving from Java to C++ is creating all your objects with new. In C++, new is not for creating objects, it’s for memory allocation. Any time you can use a local variable instead of dynamic allocation, you should. And when you can’t, try to let some library-provided object like std::vector take care of the allocation and deallocation for you.