c++ - ==operator overload only on certain occasions

Question

I am making a project that takes in types as templates. The operator== is already overloaded for chars, ints, strings, etc as you know, but if the user decides to pass in a cstring (null terminated character array) I will need to overload the == for that. Can I choose to only overload the operator== when the user uses cstrings, and use the default == when they dont? How would this be accomplished?

Answer 1

You cannot overload the == operator on a C-string. I am not completely sure why that should be necessary - the C++ string class has defined an implicit conversion from a C-string, and already defines the == operator.