Thread: Trouble passing a string into strlen()...

Why is it that this won't work?

Code:

#include<string>
#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string text=("This is Text");
    cout<<strlen(text);
    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

These are the errors I get:

Code:

no matching function for call to `strlen(std::string&)'
candidates are: size_t strlen(const char*)

Just to make things a little more clear, I want to keep the variable 'text' as a string and not a char array.

Thanks

text.c_str()

Thanks everyone, that helps a lot!