Question

If I have my own SString class in c++ and I want to be able to do this:

SString x("text");
LPCSTR p = (LPCSTR)x;
cout<<p;

How do I do it?

Answer 1

Create conversion operator to LPCSTR in your class SString. If you can use C++11 this operator should be explicit.

operator LPCSTR() const { /*return data*/ };

Also you can create some function like (i think this variant is better, than conversion operator)

LPCSTR asLPCSTR() const { /*return data*/ };