retrieve output from system()

im working on a program that helps manage a network, well sort of anyway.
The point is that in command prompt, the command, net view, gives you a list of the computer names that are currently on the network.
What i need to be able to do is hav the program save this list into a variable, or even better, an array.
Is there a C++ function that returns this list, or, if not, how can i store the output of that system() statement in a variable?

You can use the WNetOpenEnum/WNetEnumResource/WNetCloseEnum functions to enumerate all resources on a network.

Code:

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cout << system("command");

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Is valid. So is any ostream. You can connect to a temporary file, dump everything from the system() command into the temp file then read and parse the file for data.

Enahs, that actually is not valid, because the return value of a system() command isn't the output, but is either 0 if it worked, or i cant remember what, if it doesnt.
So this only puts a 0 in the temporary file.
and envoigt, care to elaborate?

Anyone have any ideas?

You could try popen()