From: johncc AT my-deja DOT com
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Subject: Re: Catenation (spelled right?) of strings
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:34:41 GMT
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In article <37B98244 DOT 226F207F AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>,
  "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:
> 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!";
>

Ok, good point, better is:
  string theString = string("GOATS ") + "MAKE " + "GOOD " + "PETS!";

Cheers,
John


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