Yes, it is easy to go back and forth between std::string and char* using the std::string constructor and ::c_str(). The "nightmare" part is that when interactin

Yes, it is easy to go back and forth between std::string and char* using the std::string constructor and ::c_str(). The "nightmare" part is that when interacting with C from C++, you can never work with the internal std::string data, so you have to manage copies of buffers and copy it back into a std::string every single time you interact with C functions. It's really nasty to look at in large quantities.