'+' cannot add two pointers error

Question

I can do what the following code shows:

std::string a = \"chicken \";
std::string b = \"nuggets\";
std::string c = a + b;

However, this fails:<

Answer 1

"chicken " and "nuggets" are not of type std::string but are const char[]. As such even though you want to assign the concatenation to a string they types don't have an operator +. You could solve this using:

std::string c = std::string("chicken ") + "nuggets";