Re: Compiling old OCT files

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Sep-2004, Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:

| There is also a c_str() method in std::string which may do some of what you
| want with the string from Octave:
| 
|     std::string fn = args(0).string_value();
|     char * s = fn.c_str();

This works if S is "const char*", but not if it is "char*".  In that
case, you need to allocate some space and make a copy.

jwe



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