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Re: Search through a file for a string

May 19th, 2008

>>cannot convert std::string to const void for argument 2 to ssize_t write(int, const void*, size_t)

the function write is wanting a pointer as the second parameter and you are passing std::string. The third parameter is also wrong. try this:
write(lcd,copsoutput.c_str(), copsoutput.length());

Last edited by Ancient Dragon : May 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm.

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