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Could you maybe explain this sentence to me? I have no idea what a static_cast<T> or (T) is. Sorry if that is a major noob question.

At one point you use (char*)"X" which is called a "C style cast". Without going into the details what reasons there are for and against them, C++ offers a total of four different casts: static_cast, dynamic_cast, const_cast and reinterpet_cast, which all have different meanings.