S"String"

[sjesweak]

I've been looking at chunks of code and dealing with string assignments in C++.

 

String* myLog = S"myNewLog";

 

What is the 'S' before "myNewLog"; needed for? Is it involved with the pointer of String*?

[HJB417]

it tells the compiler to treat it as a System.String as opposed to an array of characters.

 

"foo bar" = char value[] = {'f', 'o', 'o', ' ', 'b', 'a', 'r', '\0'};

String* value = "foo bar" //wont compile

String* value = new String("foo bar") // will compile

String* value = S"foo bar" //will compile

 

and you can do S"FOO BAR"->Substring() and so forth.