C++ Pass A String

Question

Quick probably obvious question.

If I have:

void print(string input)
{
  cout << input << endl;
}

How do I call it like

Answer 1

You should be able to call print("yo!") since there is a constructor for std::string which takes a const char*. These single argument constructors define implicit conversions from their aguments to their class type (unless the constructor is declared explicit which is not the case for std::string). Have you actually tried to compile this code?

void print(std::string input)
{
    cout << input << endl;
} 
int main()
{
    print("yo");
}

It compiles fine for me in GCC. However, if you declared print like this void print(std::string& input) then it would fail to compile since you can't bind a non-const reference to a temporary (the string would be a temporary constructed from "yo")