Replace a string in a vector of structs C++

Asked Jul 19 '20 at 19:53

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I am trying to replace a string in a vector of structs.

struct Song
{
    string artist;
    string title;
    string album;
    double m_price;
    string year;
    size_t length;
};

vector<Song> c_collection;

Then I used this loop to replace a string "[None]" in 'album' with 6 spaces:

for (auto& c : c_collection)
    {
        std::replace(c.album.begin(), c.album.end(), string("[None]"), string("      "));
    }

Compiler shows an error which says:

 "cannot convert from 'const_Ty' to 'char' with [  _Ty=std::string  ]".

What did i do wrong?

edited Jul 20 '20 at 03:37

Geno C

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asked Jul 19 '20 at 19:53

Dr_Cringe

Your error has nothing to do with the vector, or the struct. Your replace is wrong. See the dupe for some ways of doing that. – cigien Jul 19 '20 at 19:58
Also, [please stop posting duplicate questions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62984907/how-to-remove-the-token-none-from-the-album-field-of-the-songs-and-replace-n). – Sam Varshavchik Jul 19 '20 at 20:00
You are trying to compare each char in album with a string [None]. You need to compare album as a string with [None]. – stackoverblown Jul 19 '20 at 20:02
@stackoverblown How can I do this? – Dr_Cringe Jul 19 '20 at 20:04
Directly compare the two like if ( c.album == "[None]" ) c.album = std::string(" "); – stackoverblown Jul 19 '20 at 20:23

Replace a string in a vector of structs C++

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