How to return result of function?

How to point to function result or return value in c++?

• I know how to point to the entire function, but I have tried for hours to point to the result of a finished function, but could not. I am using mostly inline functions.

• Answer:

  I think you are a bit confused and misguided in your imagining of how your program will/should work and what you are trying to do. That is, the reason you have been trying so hard and haven't found information elsewhere is because your design/idea is bad and not used. Return values from a function do what you are describing, and between either a return value or passing the things you want to return by reference in the function, that is all you need to do what you want to. Don't try to make it more complicated than that. string theReturn; name(&theReturn); or string theReturn = name(); For C style strings in C++, you would do: char* theReturn; name(&theReturn); delete[] theReturn; char* theReturn = name(); delete [] theReturn; In both cases, name would contain a new char[size];