Question

I need a little of your help in this simple script. I am trying to create a script that run a “taskkill” by reading the windows title , but I dont know how to make it run in C++ . As I know in batch will be really easy

system("TASKKILL /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Notepad*""); 

But when I try to do that in C++

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

int main()
{
using namespace std;


system("TASKKILL /F /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Notepad*""); 


}

I am not able to compile it! I got this in DevC++

[Error] expected ‘)’ before ‘WINDOWTITLE’

I am sure that the problem is set on that “_” needed to be able to run Windowstitle , but without that it will not work.

Any advice?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Escape the quotation marks:

system("TASKKILL /F /FI \"WINDOWTITLE eq Notepad*\""); 
//                     ^^^                      ^^^