How do I convert a C char* into a C++ char?

[thiago_j]

How do I convert a C char* into a C++ char?

Any help is highly appreciated.

[laserlight]

How do I convert a C char* into a C++ char?

Perhaps you mean to ask how to convert a char* to a std::string? If that's the case, then you would use the std::string constructor that accepts a const char*

[thiago_j]

Thanks for your help!

I've just found a way. I use a temporary string "dept", and it works!

getline(in, data[count]);
dept = data[count];
department = dept[0];
out << department << endl;
count++;

[Wraithan]

getline() accepts C++ style strings, so that is a lot of extra work you are going through .

[Daved]

Actually, it looks like thiago_j is using the string version of getline.

Regardless, there is no need for a temporary string there. data[count][0] is the same as your use of dept. You can use out << data[count][0] << endl.

[dwks]

You don't need a (named) temporary string.

a_function_that_requires_a_string(std::string(a_char_array));