hi yal' Can anyone tell me the b

[JaybOt]

hi yal'

Can anyone tell me the best way to return char* from a function/class method. All i need to do is return a string of chars when the func/method is called. I have also tried using ... string myClass::myMethod(void)... but no luck there either.

my code looks like this..

in class ..
char* myClass::myMethod(void);

Use:
char* myClass::myMethod(void) // should return char*
{
return (myClass.hostname);
}

in function ..
char* myFunc(void);

Use:
char* myFunc(void)
{
return(myClass.myMethod())
}

when i try the above, i get error like ..

'cannot resolve overloaded function `myMethod' based on conversion to type `const char *'

can anyone tell me where im going wrong, should I try to return a pointer to the string and set the return type as 'int'??? (tried unsuccessfully) or is there another wasy to acheive this?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks guys..

J@yb0t

"Always know what you say, but don't always say what you know!"

 

[chipperMDW]

> 'cannot resolve overloaded function `myMethod' based on conversion to type `const char *'

So I'm going to guess your code really looks like:

class myClass
{
  public:
    char*        myMethod(void);
    const char*  myMethod();
};

and it can't tell which is which, so you want to do:

class myClass
{
  public:
    char*        myMethod(void);
    const char*  myMethod()

const

;
};

 

[ArkM]

Don't worry, be happy with stl:string return values. This STL class has an adequate value semantics, its destructors will be automatically invoked at proper moment (no need in garbage collection.