data [C++ Reference]
Keywords: string,data
Date: 2009-12-06T00:35:09-0800

## data

Syntax:

        #include <string>
        const char *data() const;

The function data() returns a pointer to the first character in the current string.

For example:

    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    using namespace std;

    int main ()
    {
        string str1="hello";
        const char *ch;
        size_t n=str1.length();
        ch=str1.data();
        for(int i=0;i<=n;i++)
        {
            cout<<*(ch++);
        }
        return 0;
    }

Related Topics: String operators, c_str