I'm writing my own string class StringEx in c++ (don't worry, just for exercise) but I'm failing at creating an instance of my class by assigning a string to it:
StringEx string1 = StringEx("test"); // works fine
StringEx string2 = "test"; // doesn't work
string string3 = "test";
string1 = string3; // also works fine
I overloaded the assignment operator so it can handle with std::string but I have to create an object of StringEx first.
How can I create a new object of StringEx by assigning a string to it? Is it even possible to get c++ handling every "string" as an object of my StringEx class?
As requested, hereThis is my StringEx.h which works now
#ifndef STRINGEX_H
#define STRINGEX_H
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std; //simplyfying for now
class StringEx
{
private:
vector<char> text;
public:
StringEx();
StringEx(string);
StringEx(const char*); // had to add this
StringEx(vector<char>);
int size() const;
int length() const;
char at(int) const;
void append(const string&);
void append(const StringEx&);
void append(const char*); // had to add this
StringEx operator+(const string&);
StringEx operator+(const StringEx&);
StringEx operator+(const char*); // had to add this too
StringEx operator=(const string&);
StringEx operator=(const StringEx&);
StringEx operator=(const char*); // had to add this too
StringEx operator+=(const string&);
StringEx operator+=(const StringEx&);
StringEx operator+=(const char*); // had to add this too
friend ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const StringEx&);
};
#endif // STRINGEX_H
