can you convert a char[] to a string

[stevew2607]

is it possible to convert a type string to a char[]?
like
string s;
char[8] c;
can you copy the contents of c into s?? i so how

[Traveller]

#include<iostream>
#include<string>

using namespace std;

int main(){
           char x[] = "aaaaaaaa";
           string s;
           for(int i=0;i<sizeof(x);i++)
                   s+=x[i];
}

[endo]

Not 100% definite on this but if I was going to write a string class, I would have a constructor to take care of that. You can probably do this:

char name[] = "endo";
string s( name );

[Traveller]

Hey good, point, here this works with the string lib :

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main(){

           char x[] = "This is a test string";
           string s;

           s = string(x);  //type-caste to type string

           cout<<s;
           cin.get();
           return(0);
}

Just curious as to why considering a string is just a char array anyway? I mean why bother creating char x[] anyway?