No suitable conversion function from "std::string" to "const char *" exists

Question

I am trying to delete a .txt file but the filename is stored in a variable of type std::string. The thing is, the program does not know the name of the file beforehand so I can't just use remove("filename.txt");

string fileName2 = "loInt" + fileNumber + ".txt";

Basically what I want to do is:

remove(fileName2);

However, it tells me that I cannot use this because it gives the me error:

No suitable conversion function from "std::string" to "const char *" exists.

Answer 1

remove(fileName2.c_str());

will do the trick.

The c_str() member function of a std::string gives you the const char * C-style version of the string that you can use.

Answer 2

You need to change it to:

remove(fileName2.c_str());

c_str() will return the string as a type const char *.

Answer 3

When you need to convert std::string to const char* you can use the c_str() method.

std::string s = "filename";
remove(s.c_str());