I have a lot of dev experience. But, am completely new to C++. So, the answer to this question may be really obvious... I followed this guide to create my first, simple SKSE plugin: https://github.com/xanderdunn/skaar/wiki/SKSE%3A-Getting-Started

That works great. Now I want to alter the plug-in so that it sends a string into Papyrus instead of a number. I have tried adding "#include " to various places and tried every combination I could think of for "string" and "std::string" as the type identifiers. But, I keep getting compile errors that I don't quite understand.

Can anyone explain how to send a string into Papyrus or write a piece of code showing how it is done? Maybe as a return value isn't the best way...?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You probably want BSFixedString. Take a look at the SKSE papyrus scripts and their .h and .cpp files. ObjectReference.psc has "string Function GetDisplayName() native" corresponding to PapyrusObjectReference.h

BSFixedString GetDisplayName(TESObjectREFR* object);

and PapyrusObjectReference.cpp

	BSFixedString GetDisplayName(TESObjectREFR* object)
	{
		return (object) ? CALL_MEMBER_FN(object, GetReferenceName)() : "";
	}

and

	registry->RegisterFunction(
		new NativeFunction0("GetDisplayName", "ObjectReference", papyrusObjectReference::GetDisplayName, registry));