system( "ping > pingresult.txt") From this code can the string "ping " be taken from an std::string variable? For example:
string ipAddress; cout << "Enter the ip address: "; cin >> ipAddress; string ip = "ping" + ipAddress; **system ("ip > pingresult.txt");** //error here sytem("exit"); 2 Answers
ip is not a shell command. I'm guessing you thought the string "ip" in the system call would be implicitly replaced with the string ip in your program; it doesn't work that way.
You can put the entire command string in ip then use the .c_str() method to convert the string to the const char * array that system expects:
ip += " > pingresult.txt"; system(ip.c_str()); You must first build the full command into an std::string, and then pass it as a const char * to the system function:
string ipAddress; cout << "Enter the ip address: "; cin >> ipAddress; string cmd = "ping " + ipAddress + " > pingresult.txt"; system (cmd.c_str()); // pass a const char * //system("exit"); this is a no-op spawning a new shell to only execute exit... 
