From ff293f209a92c434cf14cac86a4f8ab75bad9675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:11:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added (const char*) cast operator. That makes BString more
 convenient to pass around, particularly returning it from methods instead of
 a const char*, if the object stores the string as a BString anyway, thus
 leveraging CoW.

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@31354 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
---
 headers/os/support/String.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/headers/os/support/String.h b/headers/os/support/String.h
index 585b394cd6..9ca5285094 100644
--- a/headers/os/support/String.h
+++ b/headers/os/support/String.h
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ public:
 			bool			operator>(const char* string) const;
 			bool			operator!=(const char* string) const;
 
+							operator const char*() const;
+
 			// strcmp()-style compare functions
 			int				Compare(const BString& string) const;
 			int				Compare(const char* string) const;
@@ -423,6 +425,13 @@ BString::operator!=(const char* string) const
 }
 
 
+inline
+BString::operator const char*() const
+{
+	return String();
+}
+
+
 inline bool
 operator<(const char *str, const BString &string)
 {