convert a char* to std::string

Question

I need to use an std::string to store data retrieved by fgets(). To do this I need to convert the char* return value from fgets(

Answer 1

Pass it in through the constructor:

const char* dat = "my string!";
std::string my_string( dat );

You can use the function string.c_str() to go the other way:

std::string my_string("testing!");
const char* dat = my_string.c_str();