std::string to char[] with a twist

[ruffiano]

Hello,

I need your expertise to perform a conversion.

I need to convert a std::string to a char[32]. However, in the
conversion, I need to get rid of the '/0' character. The initial string
represents a 256 bit (32 byte) numeric value. Therefore, the resulting
char[32] should not contain '/0'.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

[Mehturt]

ruffiano napísal(a):

Hello,

I need your expertise to perform a conversion.

I need to convert a std::string to a char[32]. However, in the
conversion, I need to get rid of the '/0' character. The initial string
represents a 256 bit (32 byte) numeric value. Therefore, the resulting
char[32] should not contain '/0'.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

How about:

std::string src;
char dst[32];
memcpy(dst, src.data(), 32);

Plus some additional bounds checking, etc.

[Frederick Gotham]

ruffiano posted:

Hello,

I need your expertise to perform a conversion.

I need to convert a std::string to a char[32]. However, in the
conversion, I need to get rid of the '/0' character. The initial string
represents a 256 bit (32 byte) numeric value. Therefore, the resulting
char[32] should not contain '/0'.

There's no need to get rid of the null terminator; just pretend it isn't
there.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

#include <cassert>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using std::string;
using std::cout;

unsigned const magic = 32;

char const inline (&Func(string const &str))[magic]
{
char const *const p = str.c_str();

assert(strlen(p) >= magic);

return reinterpret_cast<char const (&)[magic]>(*p);
}

int main()
{
string str("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdef");

char const (&arr)[magic] = Func(str);

char const *p = arr;
char const *const p_over = arr + magic;

do
{
cout << *p++;
} while (p != p_over);
}

--

Frederick Gotham

[Noah Roberts]

ruffiano wrote:

Hello,

I need your expertise to perform a conversion.

I need to convert a std::string to a char[32]. However, in the
conversion, I need to get rid of the '/0' character. The initial string
represents a 256 bit (32 byte) numeric value. Therefore, the resulting
char[32] should not contain '/0'.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Why do you think you need to do this? You might not.