std::basic_string::c_str

 

C++

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Regular expressions library (C++11)

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Thread support library (C++11)

 

Strings library

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Classes

basic_string

char_traits

 

std::basic_string

Member functions

basic_string::basic_string

basic_string::operator=

basic_string::assign

basic_string::get_allocator

Element access

basic_string::at

basic_string::operator[]

basic_string::front (C++11)

basic_string::back (C++11)

basic_string::data

basic_string::c_str

Iterators

basic_string::begin basic_string::cbegin (C++11)

basic_string::end basic_string::cend (C++11)

basic_string::rbegin basic_string::crbegin (C++11)

basic_string::rend basic_string::crend (C++11)

Capacity

basic_string::empty

basic_string::size

basic_string::length

basic_string::max_size

basic_string::reserve

basic_string::capacity

basic_string::shrink_to_fit (C++11)

Operations

basic_string::clear

basic_string::insert

basic_string::erase

basic_string::push_back

basic_string::pop_back (C++11)

basic_string::append

basic_string::operator+=

basic_string::compare

basic_string::replace

basic_string::substr

basic_string::copy

basic_string::resize

basic_string::swap

Search

basic_string::find

basic_string::rfind

basic_string::find_first_of

basic_string::find_first_not_of

basic_string::find_last_of

basic_string::find_last_not_of

Constants

basic_string::npos

Non-member functions

operator+

operator== operator!= operator< operator> operator<= operator>=

swap(std::basic_string)

operator<< operator>>

getline

stoi stol stoll (C++11) (C++11) (C++11)

stoul stoull (C++11) (C++11)

stof stod stold (C++11) (C++11) (C++11)

to_string (C++11)

to_wstring (C++11)

Helper classes

hash<std::string> hash<std::wstring> hash<std::u32string> hash<std::u16string> (C++11)

 

const CharT* c_str() const;

Returns a pointer to a null-terminated character array with data equivalent to those stored in the string.

The pointer is such that the range [c_str(); c_str() + size()] is valid and the values in it correspond to the values stored in the string with an additional null character after the last position.

The pointer obtained from c_str() may be invalidated by:

• Passing a non-const reference to the string to any standard library function, or
• Calling non-const member functions on the string, excluding operator[], at, front, back, begin, rbegin, end, and rend.

Writing to the character array accessed through c_str() is undefined behavior.

Since C++11, c_str() and data() perform the same function.

Parameters

(none)

Return value

Pointer to the underlying character storage.

data()[i] == operator[](i) for every i in [0, size()).	(until C++11)
data() + i == &operator[](i) for every i in [0, size()].	(since C++11)

Complexity

Constant.

Exceptions

noexcept specification:  

noexcept

  (since C++11)

Notes

The pointer obtained from c_str() may only be treated as a pointer to a null-terminated character string if the string object does not contain other null characters.

See also

front (C++11)	accesses the first character (public member function)
back (C++11)	accesses the last character (public member function)
data	returns a pointer to the first character of a string (public member function)