Re: std::string vs other strings

I found this some time ago:
http://blog.strixcode.com/2010/06/using-qstring-with-luabind.html

But i never got it to work with JUCE's String class, if anyone could share
a piece of converter code that works with a custom String class that would
be nice.

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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Cory Riddell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can bind a function like:
>
> const char* say_hello()
> {
>     return "hello";
> }
>
> or
>
> std::string say_hello()
> {
>     return std::string("hello");
> }
>
> and use it with luabind easily. If I want to return another string
> format like MFC's CString or Qt's QString, what do I need to do? I
> grepped the source looking for something like:
>   class_<std::string>("???")
>     .def( ... )
>
> I figured I would do the same thing for other string types, but I didn't
> find anything. Why does std::string just seem to work?
>
> Cory
>
>
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