C++ parsing question

[John Levon]

Is it possible to do what is implied by this code :

if ((const char*  p = func()) && *p) { 
	// deal with p
}

i.e. declare and initialise a pointer p and then check the contents all
within the conditional

I don't have a C++ standard to check what the problem is here...

g++ 2.95.2

thanks
john

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