Assertion Failure in cout.

[djimm100]

I have this statement in a function:

cout << m << &quot;, XSet ID# &quot; << temp_xid;

m is a pointer to a string. temp_xid is an unsigned long. For some reason, an assertion failure is occurring inside cout every time I try to pass a numeric constant or variable. temp_xid, long, int, short and double cause this problem, but inserting a char does not.

Any ideas?

 

[apatterno]

>> m is a pointer to a string

Is m is of type 'char*'?

A common mistake is to pass STL string objects into functions that are expecting a C-style string (i.e., char*). If that is the case, then you need to call basic_string::c_str() on the string object.

Thus, if this was indeed your mistake, the line above would be written

[tt]cout << m.c_str() << &quot;, XSet ID# &quot; << temp_xid;[/b]

[sub]I REALLY hope that helps.[/sub]
Will