Converting a string constant to char

Question

I have a class named Player but when building a constructor like the one below, I got a warning that read: ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to 'char'. Can anyone tell me what this means and how I can fix it?

class Player
{
public:
    Player(char * firstN = "", char * lastN = "");
};

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/13690766/8887578. – Del Feb 12 '19 at 23:19 — Del, Feb 12 '19 at 23:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '19 at 23:23

ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to 'char'

I doubt the compiler said that. It probably said "ISO C++ forbids conversion from string constant to char*" instead. There is a difference.

Can anyone tell me what this means

It means that you're trying to initialise a pointer to char using a string constant. As the error message explains, this is something that cannot be done because a string constant is not implicitly convertible to such type.

how I can fix it?

You can change the argument type to be const char*. A string constant implicitly converts to that type.

Converting a string constant to char

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