I need to use an std::string to store data retrieved by fgets(). To do this I need to convert the char* return value from fgets() into an std::string to store in an array. How can this be done?
std::string has a constructor for this:
const char *s = "Hello, World!";
std::string str(s);
Just make sure that your char * isn't NULL, or else the behavior is undefined.
If you already know size of the char*, use this instead
char* data = ...;
int size = ...;
std::string myString(data, size);
This doesn't use strlen.
EDIT: If string variable already exists, use assign():
std::string myString;
char* data = ...;
int size = ...;
myString.assign(data, size);