Strange problem with system call

[Thomas Regner]

On Sam, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> my programm creates a temporary file /tmp/mytempfile. Before exiting it
> should remove the file. Up to now I did that with 
> 
>   system("rm -v /tmp/mytempfile");
> 
> and it worked. As my program grows I thought that I could later want to
> change the name of the tempfile. So I defined a global variable
> 
>   const string TEMPFILE = "/tmp/mytempfile";
> 
> and changed my code to use TEMPFILE everywhere instead of direcly naming
> "/tmp/mytempfile". I also tried to adjust the abovementioned line. I did
> this:
> 
>   string cmd = "";
> 
>   ...
> 
>   cmd = "rm -v " + TEMPFILE;
>   system(cmd.data());
>

should be:

	system( cmd.c_str() );
as string::data() returns usually not just the current string-contents, but the whole data-segment of that string,
while c_str() returns a correct char* to a \0-terminated string representation.


> For some reasons this doesnt work. Running the program I get these
> errors
> 
>   sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '"'
>   sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> Has someone an idea of what's going wrong there?
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