How can I convert a std::basic_string type to an array of char type?

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I get the following error when this code is run: ``` syslog(LOG_ERR | LOG_USER, "%s",errorString); ``` cannot convert ‘const string {aka const std::basic_string}’ to ‘const char*’ for >argument ‘2’ to ‘void syslog(int, const char*, ...)’ inServer.cpp /PeCounter line 478 C/C++ Problem I am daemonizing the program and the errorString value prints just fine when outputted to stdio using cout, but it will not print when using a syslog call. Any way to get std::basic_string(char) into the form of 'const char'.

Accepted Answer

I found that `std::basic_string` has an item access method `c_str()` which seems to fix the compiling issue.

Here is a site with more information: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string

How can I convert a std::basic_string type to an array of char type?

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