The following code, written years ago in C, will not compile in the Community version of Microsoft Visual Studio for C++:

typedef struct {
    char* szString;
    int  iID;
}   LocalStringElement;


    LocalStringElement l_sTheStrings[] = {
    {"Simple",      0}, {"S", 0},
    {"Triangular",  1}, {"T", 1},
    {"Weighted",    2}, {"W", 2},
    {"Exponential", 3}, {"E", 3}
};

Later on in the code it uses l_sTheStrings[some value].szString and l_sTheStrings[some value].iID, so it looks to be putting structures as elements of an array.

Using the C++ debugger gives, as an example,the following type of error message :

error C2440: ‘initializing’: cannot convert from ‘const char [7]’ to ‘char *’
Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier (see /Zc:strictStrings)

Looking at other answers, such as :

An array of structures in C

it looks like maybe swap ‘char* szString’ to be ‘const char* szString’, but I was not sure if this is a sound thing to do and gives exactly the same behaviour as the C coding intended ?