Question

This may be an obvious answer but I have little experience with C++. I am trying to pass a location of a files to system so that It will run it.

The code Im using:

        char test[20] = "C:\\";

        system("PAUSE & cd "+test[]+" & ping.text & PAUSE");

Which is not working. This is how I would do things in java really. How would I go about getting the character array test into that system string ? Any help or even a link to a possible solution would be a great help.

Answer 1

I have managed to solve this problem using the following code:

        char testing[500];  // create char array
        strcpy (testing, "PAUSE & cd "); // copy the string into the char array
        strcat (testing, test); 
        strcat (testing, " & ping.text & PAUSE");
        system(testing);

As I am relatively inexperienced with C++, I am unsure if this is the ‘best’ way to go about things but It got my code working correctly without issues. If anyone has any information to add to this solution I will update this answer.