chdir with varibles

[hwuy]

sup yall. working on this program that will make a directory and change to it
I know how to change a directory or make one with static values but i wnat it to work with variables like


chdir(varible)
unfortunate this does not work so i don't know what to do.

[Peter87]

If varible is a char* it should work. If varible is a std::string you have to use the c_str() function to get a char* from it. chdir(varible.c_str())

[hwuy]

i do that and it compiles just fine but it wont do the system("ls") so i dont know if it is working

[kooth]

The system() call returns an integer. What value is it returning? If it's -1, then display the value of errno to see what the problem is.

[Athar]

TBH, you probably selected the wrong language. You should be writing a shell script instead.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

[ne555]

Check the returned value. That is how you know if it was succesful (or use get_current_dir_name)
¿what do you want to do?

@Athar: ¿Don't you think that is a little premature?