Is there a way to make a char* (or char string) equal to a ostringstream.str()? In the tutorial below, a "string" is equal to an ostringstream.str(). That''ll obviously compile, but I tried making a "char *mystr = oss.str()" and I get errors with that. I swear I''ve seen this done with a char string on this forum...or one of the many other forums here! But I forgot to bookmark it or something--I never found it again Thanks in advance. #include <iostream> #include <sstream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main () { ostringstream oss; string mystr; oss << "Sample string"; mystr=oss.str(); // <---- RIGHT HERE cout << mystr; return 0; }

well , I do not know whether u can type caste , but if a
char* is all that u want then u can very well do that

char * mystr
mystr = oss.str().c_str() ;

This should work fine...

No, that won''t because std::string::c_str() returns a const char *, and if you make mystr a const char *, it will point to deallocated memory once the ostringstream goes out of scope. If you have some grudge against using std::string, then you should do:

char mystr[256];
strcpy(mystr, oss.str().c_str());