C-Style Strings as template arguments? [duplicate]

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A string literal cannot be used as a template argument.

Update: Nowadays, a few years after this question was asked and answered, it is possible to use string literals as template arguments. With C++11, we can use characters packs as template arguments (template<char ...c>) and it is possible to pass a literal string to such a template.

This would work, however:

template <char const *str>
struct X
{
    const char *GetString() const
    {
         return str;
    }
};

char global_string[] = "String";

int main()
{
    X<global_string> x;
    cout<<x.GetString();
}

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