"Unhandled exception" after strcpy

[cadbilbao]

Hi!

Using VC++ 6.0, if I insert this piece of code into my program, I get the
"Unhandled exception. Acces violation" error:


--------------//------------------
char *file,*name;
name = attr.getNodeValue().transcode(); //It's a value from parsing an XML doc
strcpy(file,name);
-------------//-------------------



I know that I am problably accessing memory I don't own, or I did
not allocate enough memory. But my question is:

+ How can I solve this?
+ How can access the memory I own?
+ How can allocate memory? Wich are the commands?

TIA.

 

[Cagliostro]

first you must alloc memory for string to copy.
file=new char[strlen(name)+1];
strcpy(file,name); John Fill

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[chiph]

first you must alloc memory for string to copy.

And free it when you're done.

[tt]free(file);[/tt]

Chip H.

 

[Cagliostro]

I think C++ operator delete is better:
delete[] file; John Fill

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