std::string

If you are talking about something like this:

void main (void) { char *characterArray = "This is a place holder\n"; std::string myString = characterArray; std::cout << myString; }

Then it definately should work, because operator = is overloaded to make the proper conversion to std::string from char * and the string class is smart enough to allocate memory for itself (you could try reserve() still if you want). Maybe something else is wrong with your code? You have a pointer to std::string instead or std::string or you left out the ''\0'' in the char* ? try posting the relavant portion of your code.

Get sure that Str is filled with a valid string!!!

char *Str = "Test";
string strName;
strName = Str;
is correct

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Ok the whole thing looks like this:



CObject::CObject(HANDLE hFile)

:m_strName("");

{

char name[100];

unsigned long size;



// read size of the following string

ReadFromFile(hFile, &size, sizeof(unsigned long));



// read the string itself

ReadFromFile(hFile, name, size);

name[size] = 0; // terminating the string



m_strName = name; // crashes here

};

ReadFromFile is my own function and works perfectly, I''m also sure that the name[] gets filled properly.... Now why does it crash....

name[size] = 0; // terminating the string

try name[size] = /0;

0 is just a char, /0 is the null character for a sting.

0 or ''\0'' shouldn''t make any difference. But have you checked if name contains the correct string (by using a debugger)?