--- At Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:12:47 -0600, Dave Glowacki wrote:
>If I try to do something like this:
>
> const char *sample = "Sample String";
>
> char copy[16];
> strcpy(copy, sample);
> CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL_MESSAGE("Identical strings are not equal",
> (const char *)copy, sample);
>
>I end up getting an assertion like this:
>
> charcompare.cpp:15:Assertion
> Test name: CharCompare::testCompare
> equality assertion failed
> - Expected: Sample String
> - Actual : Sample String
> - Identical strings are not equal
>
>Is there a variant of CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL macro which can compare
>C strings? Extra points if it can compare a 'char[]' and a 'char *'!
You are comparing pointers. The pointers are not equal.
Convert them to std::string and compare them.
std::string sample = "Sample String";
std::string copy = sample;
CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL_MESSAGE("Identical strings are not equal",
copy, sample);
Welcome to C++
:-)
...Duane
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