Invalid name?

This puts out a file with an invaild name. I cant see the problem. Can you help?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int hednspos();
int hednepos(int);
char * hedname(int, int);
long filesiz(int);
long fileoff(int);
char * filecont(long, long);
int writefile(char *, char *, long);

int main()
{
		long size, offset;
		char *  Data;
		char * name;
		char * content;
		int namespos, nameepos;
	

	namespos = hednspos();
	cout << "File Name Start Pos: " << namespos;
	nameepos = hednepos(namespos);
	cout << "\nFile Name End Pos: " << nameepos;
	name = hedname(namespos, nameepos);
	cout << "\nFile Name: " << name;
	size = filesiz(namespos);
	cout << "\nFile Size: " << size;
	offset = fileoff(namespos);
	cout << "\nFile Offset: " << offset;
	content = filecont(offset, size);
	writefile(content, name, size);

    return 0;
}

int hednspos()
{
	
    int  namestart;
    char ptn1;
       
       ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);
	
        while(ptn1 != 92)
        {
		hed.read(&ptn1, 1);
        
             if(ptn1 == 92)
               {
                  namestart = hed.tellg();

			    }          
		} 
		
		hed.close();
	 return namestart;
}
      
int hednepos(int pnt1)
{
	char ch = 92;
	int nameend;
	ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);
	
    	hed.seekg(pnt1);
			
			while(ch != 0)
             {
		 		hed.read(&ch, 1);

         		if(ch == 0)
          		{
           		nameend = hed.tellg();
           		}                              
             }		
      	
		hed.close();
		
      return nameend;
}

char * hedname(int names, int namee)
{
	int size = (names + namee);
	char ch;
	char name[size];
	int x = 0;
	
	ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);

       hed.seekg(names-1);
	
	while(ch != 0)
           {
               hed.read(&ch, 1);
               name[x] = ch;
			   x++;
			   if(ch == 92)
			   {
				   x = 0;
			   }
           }
	
      	hed.close();	
      return  name;
 }
 
long filesiz(int pos)
 {
	 long size;
	 
	ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);

    hed.seekg(pos-5);	 
	hed.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&size),4);
	hed.close();
	 
	 return size;
 }

long fileoff(int pos)
 {
	 long offset;
	 
	ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);

    hed.seekg(pos-9);	 
	hed.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&offset),4);
	hed.close();
	 
	 return offset;
 }
 
 char * filecont(long offset, long size)
 {
 	char * content;
	 
	ifstream hed("datap.wad", ios::in | ios::binary);

    hed.seekg(offset);
	content = new char[size];
	hed.read(content,size);
	hed.close();
	 
	 return content;
 }
	 
 int writefile(char * content, char * name, long size)
 {
 
	 ofstream file(name, ios::out | ios::binary);
	 
	 file.write(content, size);
	 file.close();
	 
	return 0;
 }

It outputs this

Code:

File Name Start Pos: 9
File Name End Pos: 32
File Name: standardkeyq.bin
File Size: 2048
File Offset: 0

and the name of the file is

Code:

????????????)??????? ???<????﷌????????????????p??? (invalid encoding)

weird, and yes i know my brackets are out of place, thats just the way my compiler has them.

Code:

char * hedname(int names, int namee)
{
	int size = (names + namee);
	char ch;
	char name[size];<<< my compiler doesn't like that line because size is
not a const

	int x = 0;
	
	ifstream hed("datap.hed", ios::in | ios::binary);

       hed.seekg(names-1);
	
	while(ch != 0)
           {
               hed.read(&ch, 1);
               name[x] = ch;
			   x++;
			   if(ch == 92)
			   {
				   x = 0;
			   }
           }
	
      	hed.close();	
      return  name; << illegal return! name disappears as soon as this
function returns to is caller.
 }

There are other errors -- you need to pay attention to your compiler's error and warning messages. Treat warnings as errors because they usually are errors.

Well, what do you suggest i do? I'm freshout of ideas:/

The first thing I would do is swap out all of your C-style strings for C++ ones - this should eliminate several problems straight away, and simplify the others.

>>Well, what do you suggest i do?

I already mentioned some things. Main thing: correct all errors and warnings that your compiler displays. For example, your compiler should have screemed at you that variable ch is being used before it is set. So look at that function I posted and see if you can figure out what that means. You declared variable ch, then attempted to use it in a while loop comparing its value to 0. Welllllll.... what is the initial value of that variable? It may, or may not be 0 because the compiler does not initialize it and neither did your program. So the initial value is random making that loop unpredictable.