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Re: assign string to chr*

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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[].

-- 
Ian Collins

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assign string to chr* cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 19:50 -0700
  Re: assign string to chr* Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-29 15:12 +1200
  Re: assign string to chr* Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-07-29 06:09 +0000
  Re: assign string to chr* MJ_India <mail.mohitjain@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 23:30 -0700
  Re: assign string to chr* Sasha Daje <sasha.daje@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 15:11 -0700
    Re: assign string to chr* Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-31 10:35 +1200
      Re: assign string to chr* James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-08-07 10:30 -0700
        Re: assign string to chr* Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-08 07:39 +1200
  Re: assign string to chr* "xieyuntian" <xieyuntian1981@sohu.com> - 2011-08-02 17:37 +0800
  Re: assign string to chr* SG <s.gesemann@gmail.invalid> - 2011-08-09 11:36 +0200

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