NH> Your example is C, not C++.  The C++ way to do it is to overload the
 NH> "=" operator for whatever type you'll be appending (in this case a
 NH> character).  
You meant the "+=" or the "+" operator, didn't you ?
Bear in mind that the addition of a char to a pointer is *already* defined by 
the language.  It just doesn't do what he wants.  When an integral type (and 
char is an integral type) is added to a pointer, the pointer is incremented.
As Darin pointed out, the "C++ way" to add a character to a string is to use 
one of the string classes.
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