I am not able to get it what it means , “error: cannot convert ‘std::string’ to ‘const char*’ ”

#1

// Write a program to find the length of the string “refrigerator”.
#include
using namespace std;
main()
{
string name =“refrigerator”;
int length =strlen(name); // shows Error in this line

cout<<“the size of refrig. is :==”<<length<<endl; return 0; }

if I use char name[ ] = " refrigerator";
then it works fine why it is show error in that line?

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#2

to get the size of string type variable u can use
name.size()
or
name.length()
strlen is used for char array

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#3

@chhavibansal Thank you, now in got it. :slight_smile:

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