const char* to char*

[Virtual24]

How do you convert a variable of type 'const char*' to 'char*'?

[jim mcnamara]

You don't really - here's why

Accesible memory is either read-only or read/write. You cannot change memory the compiler designated as read-only to be read/write.

const means read-only

try moving the data do a different place in memory that is read/write like:

const char *s="hi there";
char tmp[20];
strcpy(tmp,s);
// tmp is read/write

[CornedBee]

Generic way:
const char *str = "something";
char * copy = new char[strlen(str)];
strcpy(copy, str);
// don't forget to delete[] copy when you're done

Oh, strdup() does just that, but it uses malloc, so you must free() the copy.