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Using CTime & asctime to assign time to a string or vector string

I would like to use asctime to assign the time to a string.

time_t rawtime;
time ( &rawtime );
vector<string> TTime;
TTime.resize(10);
TTime = asctime(localtime ( &rawtime ));

I understand asctime is returning a pointer to a string. Would i have to create my own string and assign it the return value of asctime, or is there a simpler way?

Solution

  • You can construct a string directly from a char *:

    string str = asctime(localtime ( &rawtime ));

    This doesn't make sense:

    TTime = asctime(localtime ( &rawtime ));

    You can't assign a single string to a vector of strings. What you can do is:

    TTime[0] = asctime(localtime ( &rawtime ));