In my engine which I am developing I am using the new style C++ but as yet in the String class which I have done I have not been able to find a way round the following problems. The class has only member variables which are an int for the length and a char* for the data. 1. I want a constructor which takes a char* as an argument but i at the moment I need to use strlen so I can get the length. 2. I need a function to put int''s into the string and at the moment I have to use sprintf and this returns a length as well as having a char* to copy the data from into the class

use the the standard string class, it has everything you need and more. Don''t bother making your own, unless you would rather work on a string class than a game.