Question

I’m trying to store strings that I read from a file in a std::vector but I’m getting a weird error…

So I have the container:

std::vector<std::string> m_Strings;

Then I read the string from a stream:

ifstream inStream;
char word[100];
//[...]
inStream >> word;
m_Strings.push_back(word);

Even though the vector is empty, when I insert the first string the vector resizes to hold 8 strings, the string at index 0 containing random characters, at index 1 containing the correct word, and the other indices containing invalid pointers…

Any idea of what might cause this?

EDIT: In this case I’m reading the string “DIRECTIONAL_LIGHT” so it fits in the char word[100]

Answer 1

Just changed char word[100]; to std::string word; and the error disappeared.