On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:36:07 -0700, Conrad wrote: > My understanding is you can do something like this: > > const char *str1, str2; > str2 = strchr(str1, 'a'); > > But str2 must be a const char *. > > Maybe I am wrong, I am not very familiar with C++. In your example, str2 is not a pointer, though. ;)