On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:18:23PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Given this, which is MacOS X code to fill 'application_support': > > > | unsigned char application_support[PATH_MAX + 1]; > | OSStatus const status_code = > | FSRefMakePath(&fsref, application_support, PATH_MAX); > > > | what's the correct way to create a std::string? > > > | std::string(application_support) fails. > > Do you know its length? > > std::string(application_support, application_support + length);
IIRC, there's a template member fn. std::string::assign() or std::string::insert() [I forget which] that takes a begin and end iterator. You could use that. For the end-iterator, just use (application_support + PATH_MAX). Afterward, just do a std::string::find_first_of() to search for the 1st '\0', then std::string::erase() from that point onward. Granted, it's not ideal, but it accomplishes what you want, and avoids the nasty reinterpret_cast<>()... -- John Weiss
