C++

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John J.

C doesnt fully support OOP though.

Yeah, C is a non-OOP language, so it has no OOP support except I guess you could say structs. But C struct's really isn't object oriented programming, it's just object oriented data.

Yahfree: C++ should be able to return a string just fine. What is the error?

No expert, but dont you need to return array itself, rather than the class?

return RetString.c_str();

No, the string class is totally self contained - if you use C++ strings, then there's absolutely no need to even be aware of the C style, unless of course you need to interface with code that uses C-style strings (which is the purpose of c_str).

Actually, returning RetString.c_str() is very dangerous and would lead to unexpected behavior - if your RetString object was defined locally to the function it's returning from, then after the function returns, RetString will be deleted, and so will it's c_str() value. And due to the way memory is managed, you may still get the proper string value back unless some other variable overwrites it later on, or in another thread.