Thread: const char* to char* ?

i have a function that accepts a string as 1st parameter and char* as second parameter. the problem is these parameters are going to be used in strtok and str tk wants it'ts first parameter to be char*. ive tried converting the string useing c_str() but that generates a const char*, as i said before. anyone know how i can get around this?

heres the code

Code:

void strExtract(string PARAM_entry, char* PARAM_delim)
{
       cout<<PARAM_entry<<endl<<PARAM_delim<<endl;
       char* TMP_PARAM_entry = PARAM_entry.c_str();
       cout<<strtok(TMP_PARAM_entry, PARAM_delim);
}

compiler error: ( from line "char* TMP_PARAM_entry = PARAM_entry.c_str();")

"initialization to `char *' from `const char *' discards qualifiers"


i don't know what strtok will output but thats not really th point at this point in time

thanks for any help

props to you sir! could you tell me or link me to what you just did there, the const_cast<> thingy