help converting a char array to a string object?

seems like there should be a simple way to do this but i can't seem to figure it out.

Code:

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#include <string>


int main (void)
    {
    char lpStr[256] = "Hi there";
    std::string str = lpStr;
    return 0;
    }

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my problems a bit more complicated than that.
just thought i was missing something easy.
hopefuly these snipets will help you to see my problem.

what i'm tring to do is pass a pointer to an array of strings
and populate it with an array of char arrays.

Code:

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void pkrEdit::GetDirs(string *dirs[])
{
        for(int i = 0; i < HStruct.num_dirs; i++)
        {
                dirs[i] = DStruct[i].path;
        }
}

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DStruct.path is part of a struct:

Code:

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typedef struct PK_DIR_STRUC
{
        char path[32];
        int file_offset;
        int file_count;
}

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seems like it should work but my compiler keep throwing the same exeption:
error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'char [32]' to 'class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > *'
sorry i wasn't more clear the first time.

not extremely clear. but you could try a cast to (char *).

Well i figured it out... turned out it was a misplaced new statment elsewhere in the code. thanks for trying though.