From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Catenation (spelled right?) of strings
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:39:49 -0400
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John Clonts wrote:

> > char THE_STRING [255];
> > THE_STRING = "GOATS " + "MAKE " + "GOOD " + "PETS!";
> > My compiler (DGJPP gccw32.exe) says: "invalid operands to binary +"
>
> #include <string>
> int main()
> {
>    string theString = "GOATS " + "MAKE " + "GOOD " + "PETS!";
> }

    Even though I've never used 'string' as a C++ datatype, and I did not
test your program, I really don't think this'll work.  You're trying to
apply the '+' operator to 'char*'s.  In C++, you can't over-ride that
operator.  I don't think you can override any pointer operators.

You could do:

string theString = "GOATS ";
theString = theString + "MAKE " + "GOOD " + "PETS!";



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