return privat string form class function

please help me out...

As the subjekt tells; I have a privat char array in a class
and 2 public functions, one to Set Name and one to Get Name.
but, I don't know how to return a string/char array

I need to use the GetName function in the win32 wsprintf() fucntion, which is like the sprintf() as far as I know?!?

so...
how do i return a char array from a function?
and how do I use the function return in wsprintf()???

here is my code...

Code:

class Fighter
{
public:
    void SetName(char NameSet[]);
    char* GetName();
private:
    char Name[];
};
void Fighter::SetName(char NameSet[])
{
    strcpy(Name, NameSet);
}
char* Fighter::GetName()
{
    return Name;
}
//somewere in winprog
int szBuffer[100]
wsprintf (szBuffer, TEXT ("%s"), User.GetName() );
MessageBox (NULL, szBuffer , "Name", 0 + MB_DEFBUTTON1 + MB_ICONASTERISK);

my problem is realy more c++ then win32 I think...

thats all... please reply

I can attach my full projekt if you ask!

Firstly, change the private member > char Name[] < to either

char *Name; OR char Name[/*a constant goes here*/];

To return a string, simply return the name of the string.

>> int szBuffer[100]
That should be char szBuffer[100]

Note that if you declare 'Name' as a char*, then you'll have to allocate memory when you use it.

Thanks for your help!!!

This is how I got it to work:

Code:

class Fighter
{
public:
    void SetName(const char * NameSet);
    char * GetName();
private:
    char Name[100];
};
void Fighter::SetName(const char * NameSet)
{
    strncpy(Name, NameSet, 100);
}
char* Fighter::GetName()
{
    char * ret = new char[100];
    memcpy(ret, Name, 100);
    return ret;
}
//somewere in winprog
char szBuffer[100]
wsprintf (szBuffer, TEXT ("%s"), User.GetName() );
MessageBox (NULL, szBuffer , "Name", 0 + MB_DEFBUTTON1 + MB_ICONASTERISK);

-GuruN