Thread: Help With system(); command

I have tryed different ways to solve this problem, but this is what I need help on.


lets say my program has already asked for a hostname and message

each are set with

char hostname[50];
char message[256];

and each called and stored with the input with
cin.getline ( hostname, 50, '\n' );
and the same for message

What I would now like to do is use the system(); command to run a NET SEND

and in the command include
(NET SEND hostname message) where hostname and message already have a value.

how would I do this. I have tryed like system("NET SEND " hostname message); and different things like that but it just wont work. I hope you get what I mean, thanks ALot!

EDIT: I am using Dev-C++

Use strcpy and strcat to build up a string, then pass the completed result to system()

Try this.

Code:

#include <string>
using namespace std;
.
.
string hostname;
string message;

//and each called and stored with the input with
getline ( cin, hostname );
getline ( cin, message );

string command = "NET SEND " + hostname + " " + message;
system(command.c_str());