C++ newbie: how can I set up a loop to pass char or string as a function argument?

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Hello all:

I would appreciate help with what is probably a silly question:

I have this function:
long int getName (const char *Name);

I have written code that gets data from a file and puts the data into this vector:
vector<string> nameVector

What I would like to do is set up a loop that takes each element from nameVector and uses it as the argument in the function getName.

I have not dealt with strings and char much and I'm having some trouble formulating this... I'm sheepishly asking this question because I suspect there's something simple I'm not getting. Is the string vector incompatible with the function requirement for char? If so, how can I set up the vector so that this is not a problem?

I would really appreciate any advice!