Converting a string to a char array

[nated]

Ok im passing in a string and i cant get it to convert to a char array. Ive tried this so far.

int MyString::find(const std::string& str)
{
 char* newString = str;
 
 	
 return 1;
}

Im pretty lost here.

[William Hemsworth]

You clearly didn't search hard.

str.c_str() // returns a constant pointer to its characters

[William Hemsworth]

If you want to 'copy' the string into a character buffer, you have to do something along the lines of:

char *newStr = new char[str.length()+1];
strcpy( newStr, str.c_str() );

// Deal with newStr

delete[] newStr;

[nated]

No actually ive tried different ways. Im VERY new to C++ and didnt understand what this function did.

[nated]

That worked. I do really appreciate the time. Thank you.