How to create conditional breakpoint with std::string

Question

Suppose I have this function:

std::string Func1(std::string myString)
{
   //do some string processing 
   std::string newString = Func2(myString)
   return newString;  
}

How do I set a conditional break when newString has a specific value? (without changing the source)

Setting the condition newString == "my value" didn't work. The breakpoints were disabled with an error overloaded operator not found.

Answer 1

Some searching has failed to turn up any way to do this. Suggested alternatives are to put the test in your code and add a standard breakpoint:

if (myStr == "xyz")
{
    // Set breakpoint here
}

Or to build up your test from individual character comparisons. Even looking at individual characters in the string is a bit dicey; in Visual Studio 2005 I had to dig down into the member variables like

myStr._Bx._Buf[0] == 'x' && myStr._Bx._Buf[1] == 'y' && myStr._Bx._Buf[2] == 'z'

Neither of these approaches is very satisfactory. We should have better access to a ubiquitous feature of the Standard Library.