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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: assign string to chr*
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:12:08 +1200
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On 07/29/11 02:50 PM, cerr wrote:
> hi,
>
> how do i correctly assign a string to a char*?
> If i do it
> char *test;
> test= "BLABLA";
> I get "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’"
> But strcpy() ot sprintf() doesn't work because there's no room
> allocated yet. So do I actually need to allocate space with calloc()/
> malloc()?

Either use std::string, const char* or char[].

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Ian Collins