how to use a string as an iterator

[Alan]

How could you use a string as an iterator so you can do this...

string s = "aksdfjsdfnxdujser";
sort(s, s+s.length());

I would think to convert them to c-strings, which i think would work but i dont know how... i know the string member c_str() but thats const char*

[Alan]

{EDIT}

string::iterator

but still this code will not work

string s = "Hello\\n";
replace(s.begin(), s.end(), "\\n", "\n");

ERROR:

no matching function for call to `replace(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char*, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char*, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, const char[3], const char[2])'

[helios]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[Alan]

OMG... sorry string has its own implementation of replace()... wow... i was trying to use the STL one thinkin I was all cool... sorry.