strcpy problem, I included cstring, string, iostream, stdio etc but still my compiler says its no a member o std!!

[devonrevenge]

so I have been trying to send the correct kind of char array down a sfml socket, but nothing ever gets sent barring of course text in

""

char stringtochar[sizeof(output)];
std::strcopy(stringtochar,output);

error: 'strcopy' is not a member of 'std'

one would think I could just pop a string in Brackets here:
ircsocket.send((somestring),sizeof(somestring));

is there an easy way to do this its such a stupid thing to get stuck on, i have found plenty of people having trouble with it but they all forgot the right includes, what could be the issue??

[Disch]

It's strcpy, not strcopy.

Also sizeof() does not get you the length of the string, but the size of the variable. If 'output' is a pointer, then sizeof() will not give you want you want and will result in an undersized buffer. use strlen() instead.

(and don't forget the +1 for the null terminator)

[devonrevenge]

still got this error

cannot convert std::string {aka std::basic_string<char>}' to 'const char*' for argument '2' to 'char* strcpy(char*, const char*)'|

oh thanks for the plus 1, that would have been annoying

[devonrevenge]

oh got it c_str() at the ends :/

[Peter87]

If you are trying to copy a std::string to a char array just so that you can pass a const char* to send, you can get a const char* from std::string directly using c_str().
ircsocket.send(somestring.c_str(), somestring.size() + 1);

[devonrevenge]

that wasn't sending for some reason peter, rather fascinatingly...using char something[strl(somestring)+1] was causeing my program to exit emidiatley!!!