AnsiString - char* transition 1

[ddvlad]

Hi, I'm doing someone a favor writing a program in Borland C++ Builder 5. Is there any way to convert between char* and AnsiString? I am using fstream to read words from a file (it's a hangman game) and I couldn't find any method that reads an AnsiString instead of a char*. If there is any other wrapper for files please let me know. I just need a starting point; I'm quite familiar with C and C++, although I haven't been doing much Windows programming in them lately.

Thanks in advance,
Vlad

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[itsgsd]

If you mean convert from char* to AnsiString, just an assignment statement will work:

  char *s = "this is a test";
  AnsiString MyAnsiString = s;

To go the other way, use the c_str() method:

strcpy(s,MyAnsiString.c_str());

 

[ddvlad]

Thanks a lot. I wouldn't have thought simple assignment would work, since C is all picky about strings. And I definitely wouldn't have thought of c_str().

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