Converting const char to char array

[HomerJ]

Hey

I need to pass a string into a method:

void parseData ( char data[] )

however i can only convert the string to a const char as follows:

const char* slk = knights.c_str();

which the method wont accept and i cant work out how to convert this further!

Ive searched the forum can anyone help me?

(the string im trying to convert is a file name.)

thanks in advance guys!

[Imperito]

void parseData ( char data[] )

What is the prototype? That doesn't sound right. If you need a const char*, try just:

parseData(knights.c_str());

Also, what kind of parsing are you doing, if you pass a const and don't return anything?

[swoopy]

I'm guessing you could do this:
char slk[80] = knights.c_str();
parseData(slk);

Or:
char slk[80];
strcpy(slk,knights.c_str());
parseData(slk);

But it also seems like this would work:
parseData ( knights.c_str() ) ;

[HomerJ]

guys ive tried both of those before, and i get no luck watsoever, for some reason this method is being very difficult but heres the error the compiler throws at me:

'parseData' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char *' to 'char []'
Conversion loses qualifiers

Any ideas?

All the method does is take in a char array (filename) and reads the individual lines into a vector. (basically anyway)

cheers for the responses

[swoopy]

You shouldn't make it const, this is the problem. parseData(data) will be changing data. Alternately you can change parseData() to:

void parseData ( const char data[] )

but then data can't be changed within the function.