Re: [coders] C++ std::string question

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Lawrance wrote:

> You can't return a reference to s, because it goes out of scope as soon 
> as the function exits.  You could return a copy of s by value, or a 
> pointer to a heap allocated copy.

Ah, ok, something like this:

    std::string
    return_string (void)
    {
        std::string s = "asdasd" ;	
        return s ; 
    }


Thanks Sam.

Cheers,
Erik
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