Thread: problem with registry commands - system()

so i have this program

Code:

int main(void){
  system("net user john /ADD");
  system("net localgroup administrators john /ADD");
  system("reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist" /v john /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f");
}

and im having a problem with escape characters/sequences i ve tried so many ways
with const char * or with double \\ to avoid it but i can't realy figure this out... so please if someone has any ideas.. thanks in advance!

You need to escape special characters with \. The special characters are \ and " -- so if you need an actual backslash in your string, that's \\, and if you need an actual quote mark in your string that's \".

hahaaaaa life saver i didn't know that quote marks are escape chars too thanks a lots!!!!!!