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template&lt;
typename Sequence
&gt;
struct <a href="./c-str.html" class="identifier">c_str</a>
{
typedef <em>unspecified</em> type;
static char const value[];
};
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<p><tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./c-str.html" class="identifier">c_str</a></span></tt> converts the <a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a> of <a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a>s <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Sequence</span></tt>
into a null-terminated byte string containing an equivalent sequence.</p>
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#include &lt;<a href="../../../../boost/mpl/string.hpp" class="header">boost/mpl/string.hpp</a>&gt;
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Sequence</span></tt></td>
<td><a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a> of
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<td>A sequence to be converted into a
null-terminated byte string.</td>
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<p class="compound-first">For any <a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a> of <a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a>s <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s</span></tt>,</p>
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<a href="./c-str.html" class="identifier">c_str</a>&lt;s&gt;::value;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A null-terminated byte string.</p>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Precondition:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./size.html" class="identifier">size</a>&lt;s&gt;::value</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">BOOST_MPL_STRING_MAX_LENGTH</span></tt>.</p>
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char const value[] = {
<a href="./at.html" class="identifier">at</a>&lt;s, 0&gt;::type::value
, ...
, <a href="./at.html" class="identifier">at</a>&lt;s, <a href="./size.html" class="identifier">size</a>&lt;s&gt;::value-1&gt;::type::value
, '\0'
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typedef <a href="./vector-c.html" class="identifier">vector_c</a>&lt;char,'h','e','l','l','o'&gt; hello;
assert( 0 == std::strcmp( <a href="./c-str.html" class="identifier">c_str</a>&lt;hello&gt;::value, &quot;hello&quot; ) );
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="./forward-sequence.html">Forward Sequence</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./string.html">string</a></p>
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