I have a class called AString
. It is pretty basic:
class AString
{
public:
AString(const char *pSetString = NULL);
~AString();
bool operator==(const AString &pSetString);
...
protected:
char *pData;
int iDataSize;
}
Now I want to write code like this:
AString *myString = new AString("foo");
if (myString == "bar") {
/* and so on... */
}
However, the existing comparison operator only supports
if (*myString == "bar")
If I omit that asterisk, the compiler is unhappy.
Is there a way to allow the comparison operator to compare *AString
with const char*
?
No, there is not.
To overload operator==
, you must provide a user-defined type as one of the operands and a pointer (either AString*
or const char*
) does not qualify.
And when comparing two pointers, the compiler has a very adequate built-in operator==
, so it will not consider converting one of the arguments to a class type.