Convert uint8_t* to std::string in C++? [duplicate]

Question

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How to Convert Byte* to std::string in C++?

I'm on an embedded device and try to receive a message. This message is given by a const uint8_t* data and its length size_t len.

Now I need a std::string to output my data.

Answer 1

If you don't want to convert the encoding, this will work:

std::string s( data, data+len );

If you want to convert UTF-8 into whatever system encoding is used by your platform, you need to use some platform-specific means.

Answer 2

Is your uint8* string null-terminated? If so, you can just do:

std::string mystring(data);