From d06a1c717a5ddd2827a9fbd85e72ca3ac94e2dee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neargye <neargye@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:18:22 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] add c_str(), to_string_view(), explicit operator const char*

---
 example/example.cpp | 7 ++++---
 include/nameof.hpp  | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/example/example.cpp b/example/example.cpp
index d65b933..9729673 100644
--- a/example/example.cpp
+++ b/example/example.cpp
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ SomeStruct structvar;
 Long othervar;
 SomeStruct* ptrvar = &structvar;
 
-void name_to_str(const char* name) {
+void name_to_chars(const char* name) {
   std::cout << name << std::endl;
 }
 
@@ -98,9 +98,10 @@ void name_to_string_view(std::string_view name) {
 int main() {
   // Compile-time.
   constexpr auto name = NAMEOF(structvar);
-  static_assert("structvar" == name);
+  using namespace std::literals::string_view_literals;
+  static_assert("structvar"sv == name);
 
-  name_to_str(name.data()); // 'structvar'
+  name_to_chars(name.c_str()); // 'structvar'
   name_to_string(std::string{name}); // 'structvar'
   name_to_string_view(name); // 'structvar'
 
diff --git a/include/nameof.hpp b/include/nameof.hpp
index 29fb37d..34ff704 100644
--- a/include/nameof.hpp
+++ b/include/nameof.hpp
@@ -162,9 +162,13 @@ class [[nodiscard]] cstring {
     return std::string_view{data(), size()}.compare(str);
   }
 
+  [[nodiscard]] constexpr std::string_view to_string_view() const noexcept { return {data(), size()}; }
+
+  [[nodiscard]] constexpr const char* c_str() const noexcept { return data(); }
+
   [[nodiscard]] constexpr operator std::string_view() const noexcept { return {data(), size()}; }
 
-
+  [[nodiscard]] constexpr explicit operator const char*() const noexcept { return data(); }
 };
 
 template <std::size_t N>