If you don't need to handle '\0' characters in your strings, then this is nearly trivial to handle. 

char*
cAiml::_respond( input, user )
    char* input
    char* user

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...does most of the work. Sorry, I never do OO via XS and I'm a bit rusty regarding little XS details so I won't try to fill in the CODE: block for above but C++ turns char* into std::string for you automatically so all you need to do is return undef (or the empty list) for one case or grab output.c_str() for the XS to copy into the returned PV for the other.

Let us know how far you get and someone will likely give you more hints...

- tye        

In reply to Re: C++ strings, references and XS (char*) by tye
in thread C++ strings, references and XS by v01d

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