Re: string, char* and static char prob

hello NG,

i am trying to do some syscalls and therefore i need to put some text
together.
its no problem as long i want to cout the text to display, but when i
want to use it
as parameter for functions the variable only passes NULL....
the out commented code segments is my try to convert the static char*
to char* so i can work with this one, but it does not work either...
(compiles but app crashes then...)

i load the names from the list to memory, and i

my code

#include "stdafx.h"
//#include "fstream.h"

bool listexists();
void getPopularNames();

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
       if (listexists())
               printf("taxa list file found!\n");
       else
               printf("error 404 - file [%S] not found\n");
       getPopularNames();
       // to get popular name call php file with latin name as
parameter
       // php.exe getPopularName.php "latin name"
       return 0;

}

void getPopularNames()
{
       ifstream filestr;
       std::string name;
       //char* name;
       std::string res;
       filestr.open("taxa.liste",ios::in);
       int counter = 0;
       cout << "processing";
       if( filestr.is_open() )
       {
               while( getline(filestr, name) ) {
                       char call[1024];
                       cout << name << '\n';

                       //char *nonconstant_namecopy;
                       //nonconstant_namecopy = new
char[name.length() + 1];
                       //strcpy_s(nonconstant_namecopy, name.length()
+1, name.c_str());

                       sprintf_s(call, "php.exe getPopularName.php
\"%S\"", name);
                       //cout << "<" << nonconstant_namecopy << ">";

                       //strcpy(call, name.c_str );
                       cout << "[call]" << call << "[/call]\n";
                       system(call);
                       // clean up
                       // delete [] nonconstant_namecopy;
                       cout << ".";
                       counter++;
               }
       }
       cout << "finished processing " << counter << " latin names.";
       filestr.close();

}

// checking if the list exists or not
bool listexists()
{
       bool flag = false;
       fstream filestr;
       filestr.open("taxa.liste",ios::in);
       if( filestr.is_open() )
       {
               flag=true;
       }
       filestr.close();
       return flag;
}