Trying to pass string literals as template arguments [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can "simulate" strings with C++11 variadic templates:

template
struct string
{
    operator const std::string&()
    {
        static const std::string str{ { CHARS... } };
        return str;
    }
}

int main()
{
    using my_string = string<'h','e','l','l','o',' ','w','o','r','l','d','!','!','!'>;

    std::cout << my_string() << std::endl;
}

This prints:

hello world!!!