Converting ostream into standard string

Question

I am very new to the C++ STL, so this may be trivial. I have a ostream variable with some text in it.

ostream* pout; (*pout) << "Some Text"; 

Is there a way to extract the stream and store it in a string of type char*?

Answer 1

The question was on ostream to string, not ostringstream to string.

For those interested in having the actual question answered (specific to ostream), try this:

void someFunc(std::ostream out) {     std::stringstream ss;     ss << out.rdbuf();     std::string myString = ss.str(); } 

Answer 2

     std::ostringstream stream;      stream << "Some Text";      std::string str =  stream.str();      const char* chr = str.c_str(); 

And I explain what's going on in the answer to this question, which I wrote not an hour ago.