Re: Compiling old OCT files

[E. Joshua Rigler]

Thanks to all for your feedback.  My old code is working perfectly now
due to everyone's great advice.  How easily and quickly one forgets
one's real programming skills (i.e., C/C++/Fortran) when spoiled by such
a wonderful high-level numerics tool like Octave :^).

-EJR


On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:55, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  9-Sep-2004, Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | There is also a c_str() method in std::string which may do some of what you
> | want with the string from Octave:
> | 
> |     std::string fn = args(0).string_value();
> |     char * s = fn.c_str();
> 
> This works if S is "const char*", but not if it is "char*".  In that
> case, you need to allocate some space and make a copy.
> 
> jwe




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