I'm trying to make a function that writes a file, but I'm having issues passing a string as a parameter.
void writeFile(string filename, string letters, int size)
{
ofstream outputfile("output.txt");
outputfile << letters;
outputfile.close();
}
int main()
{
string letters[] = {"u", "l", "s", "n", "m", "z", "a", "p", "b"};
int size = 9;
string filename = "Inputfile.txt";
writeFile(inputfilename.c_str(), letters, size);
}
And I get this error:
error: could not convert from 'std::string* {aka std::basic_string*}' to 'std::string {aka std::basic_string}'|
An array of string
items is passed as actual argument, where the formal argument is a single string
.
You could replace the array with a single string.
Or with a set, or whatever suits the purpose, but then you'll have to change the called function accordingly.
The error mentions std::string*
instead of an array, like std::string[9]
, because the array expression decays to an expression denoting a pointer to the first item, which it does because the array is not being bound to a reference or passed to sizeof
or anything where the expression's array nature would have to be preserved.