Is there a way to initialize a buffer array during declaration?

Question

Basically, I am trying to do this:

char x[] = "hello"; char* y = new char[sizeof(x)](x); // won't work. 

demo

Is there any way to do this cleanly? There are no comments about DO NOT use raw arrays or raw pointers.

Answer 1

Just write a function.

 template<typename T, size_t N> T* new_array(T const(&arr)[N]) { T* p = new T[N]; std::copy(std::begin(arr), std::end(arr), p); return p; } int main() { char x[] = "hello"; char* y = new_array(x); } 

Answer 2

Path C:

 char* y = strdup(x); free(y);