Trouble passing a string into strlen()...

Why is it that this won't work?

Code:

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#include<string>
#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

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

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These are the errors I get:

Code:

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

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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()

then use it as a string and through away the strlen function.

text.length() does the same thing as strlen(text.c_str()), and with less effort.

strlen() is meant to be used on C strings (char arrays), not C++ strings. In a C++ string, there is an actual length field [although it is not STRICTLY NECESSARY to implement it that way], so the length can be had immediately, rather than by "counting each character until we find a NUL character].

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Mats

Thanks everyone, that helps a lot!