std::string

I was reading the Daily WTF (which is can be a great learning resource on the potential horrors of any programming language and development system).

I saw the most incredible claim, "C/C++ has no native support for such a structure [strings]. It's only in the STL.".

Err, yea, it's hard to do C++ nowadays without the STL.

You might think this code won't work:

std::string arg("Hi me");
if( "Hi me" == arg ) { printf("Yup"); }

But it resolves to

operator==(const char*, std::string &);

Of course it leads to the horror I have to deal with:

Ret myFun(const char *charp)
{
   FX::FXString foxStr(charp);
   randomFoxFun(&foxStr);

   std::string stlStr(foxStr.text());
   randomStlFun(&stlStr);

   // convert STL string to Fox String
   // convert STL string to char*
}