String append

[SterlingM]

I just want to add to a string

string Character::toString() {
	string result = "    ";
	result += getName() + "     \n";
	result += "    " + getClass() + "    \n";
	result += "    " + getHealth() + "    \n";  //HERE
	return result;
}

Tells me I cannot add two pointers. But the thing that confuses me is that it gives me the error message on the last line before returning and not the top line. I thought C++ strings were able to use + to append to them.

[brewbuck]

Things between "" characters are C-style string literals, not std::strings. Even so, this code should be working. The reason it isn't is probably because getHealth() is returning a number instead of a std::string.

You really should use a stringstream for this:

string Character::toString() {
	stringstream result;
        result << "    ";
	result << getName() << "     \n";
	result << "    " << getClass() << "    \n";
	result << "    " << getHealth() << "    \n";
	return result.str();
}