Can I get a non-const C string back from a C++ string?

Question

Const-correctness in C++ is still giving me headaches. In working with some old C code, I find myself needing to assign turn a C++ string object into a C string and assign i

Answer 1

In CPP, if you want a char * from a string.c_str() (to give it for example to a function that only takes a char *), you can cast it to char * directly to lose the const from .c_str()

Example:

launchGame((char *) string.c_str());