In game Console fail. string error

[acerookie1]

when i try to use my addletter function(to compile) i get

• J:\Documents\DefualtMapEditorBuild\Updated editor\Ace_engineV3\console.cpp||In member function 'void Console::add_letter(char)':|
  J:\Documents\DefualtMapEditorBuild\Updated editor\Ace_engineV3\console.cpp|40|error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'const char*'|
  J:\Documents\DefualtMapEditorBuild\Updated editor\Ace_engineV3\console.cpp|40|error: initializing argument 2 of 'std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::insert(typename _Alloc::rebind<_CharT>::other::size_type, const _CharT*) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]'|
  ||=== Build finished: 2 errors, 0 warnings ===|

buffer is a string>>

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void Console::add_letter(char text)
{
    int length = buffer.length();
    buffer.insert(length,text); // invalid conversion from 'char' to 'const char*'| ,
  initializing argument 2 of 'std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::insert(typename _Alloc::rebind<_CharT>::other::size_type, const _CharT*) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]'|
}

better error list:

[dandymcgee]

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void Console::add_letter(char c)
{
    buffer.insert(buffer.end(), c);
}

From: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stri ... ng/insert/

[acerookie1]

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void Console::add_letter(char c)
{
    buffer.insert(buffer.end(), c);
}

From: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stri ... ng/insert/

thanx man.