operator= & Inheritance c++

One interesting thing about operator = is that it can't be inherited.. So even if your base class has operator=  , no use for derived class. For example CString has operator= , but if you derive a class from CString you will not get = operator functionality in your derived class.

But there is a neat trick that will explicitly put this operator= in to the derived class. Here it is

class CString

{
public :
  CString& operator=(char *)
  {

     // some codes

     return *this;
  }
};

class CMyString : public CString

{

public:
  //We explicitly inserted the operator.

   using CString::operator=; 
};

Now CMyString gets the operator from CString.