Copy of const char * using std::string constructor

Question

is this code ok?

void SomeClass :: foo(const char * _name) {
     //name is of type const char *
     name = std::string(_name).c_str();
}

Answer 1

I vote for strcpy. Why complicate simple things?

Or even better - since you'll obviously need to use it later, why not convert it to a std::string and just use that afterwards, forgetting about all those char *?