Comeau and g++ 3.0.2 can compile it.<P>"A template argument can be a constont expression, the address of an object or function with external linkage, or a non-overloaded pointer to member." ...

Well, if you're working in C++, you <I>should</I> be using the string class and not character arrays (IIRC, the string class has search and replace methods, but I may be hallucinating).