From: "Tom" <thomasbd AT erols DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Convert from basic_string to char *...
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:39:09 -0400
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Is it possible to convert a string that was obtained using getline into a
char *?  I know how to convert regular strings to char * but when I try a
line obtained from getline it says it can't convert basic_string to char *.

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int main()
{
char *test1 = "hello";
string test2= "hi";

cout << test1 << endl;
cout << test2 << endl;

test1 = test2;

cout << test1;
return 0;
}
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The above program works.  I want to do the following without errors.

int main()
{
string s;
char *b[500];
int n = 0;

ifstream inputfile("text.txt");
while ( getline( inputfile, s) )
{
b[++n] = s;
cout << b[n] << endl;
}
return 0;
}
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Is this possbile?  Thanks.