converting string to char

[yodadbl07]

hey everyone, i have a question. I am writing a program that sorts a list of lines of text. I read in each line of text into a string class string, manipulate that string, then once it is manipulated I need to save it to an array to sort later. Im trying to figure out how to take the string I have after it has been cleaned up, and put it into one element of an array. for example i want to do this string1 = array[0]. so that each individual element of the array[] would contain a whole line of text, so then i could sort (alphabetize) that array. can anyone help me.

ive tired tons of things but cant get the whole line of text from the string into a place where i can compare the different lines with each other to sort.

thanks
rjr

[sicarie]

hey everyone, i have a question. I am writing a program that sorts a list text. I read in each line of text into a string class string, manipulate that string, then once it is manipulated I need to save it to an array to sort later. Im trying to figure out how to take the string I have after it has been cleaned up and put it into one element of an array. for example i want to do this string1 = array[0]. so that each individual element of the array[] would contain a whole line of text, so then i could sort (alphabetize) that array. can anyone help me.

ive tired tons of things but cant get the whole line of text from the string into a place where i can compare the different lines with each other.

thanks
rjr

What have you tried so far? If you post what you have (and any error messages), we can help you with that and explain what happened with it.

[yodadbl07]

I have tried a few different things. I have tried something like this:
where t is the t is the array i would sort later and s is the original string

const char *t;
t[n] = s.c_str();

I tried using s.insert to insert all of s into another string t, but into only one element of t so like t[1].

[Ganon11]

I have tried a few different things. I have tried something like this:
where t is the t is the array i would sort later and s is the original string

const char *t;
t[n] = s.c_str();

I tried using s.insert to insert all of s into another string t, but into only one element of t so like t[1].

Right now, t is a pointer pointing to an array of characters. So t[n] is trying to access a specific character in that array, but you are setting that element to an array of characters (a CString). You should use a double pointer to implement a 2D array of char values:

char **t;
// For C++ (with new/delete operators)
t = new char*[NUM_VALUES]; // Total number of strings to sort
// For C using malloc (I think this is how it works)
t = (char**)malloc(NUM_VALUES * sizeof(char*));
// Either way, this should work:
t[num] = myString.c_str();

This way, t[num] is an element in the array t - that element is a char pointer, which can point to another array of characters, in this case myString represented as a native char array.