{"id":6493,"date":"2022-09-03T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-operate-on-global-variables-in-c\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:51:35","slug":"solved-how-to-operate-on-global-variables-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-operate-on-global-variables-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] how to operate on global variables in c++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-33576199\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"33576199\" data-parentid=\"33575980\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The problem is that you&#8217;re storing pointers into <code>cstr<\/code> in <code>argv<\/code>, but then you&#8217;re deleting <code>cstr<\/code> at the end of the <code>parse()<\/code> function. Get rid of:<\/p>\n<pre><code>delete[] cstr;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Also, you should pass <code>argc<\/code> by reference. Otherwise, when you update it in the <code>parse()<\/code> function it won&#8217;t update the caller&#8217;s variable. So it should be:<\/p>\n<pre><code>void parse(string str, int &amp;argc, char *argv[])\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>However, you also have a memory leak. You&#8217;re creating a new <code>cstr<\/code> each time <code>parse<\/code> is called, but never deleting it. You should change the function to return <code>cstr<\/code>, and have the caller delete it when they&#8217;re done with that parsed line.<\/p>\n<pre><code>char *parse(str str, int &amp;argv, char *argv[]) {\n    ...\n    return cstr;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then in your <code>main()<\/code> loop, do:<\/p>\n<pre><code>int main( void ) \n{\n    string theLine;\n\n    while (true) \n        {\n            cout &lt;&lt; \"myshell&gt; \";\n            getline(cin,theLine);\n            cout &lt;&lt; \"Command was: \" &lt;&lt; theLine &lt;&lt; endl;\n            if ((theLine == \"exit\") || (cin.eof()) || (theLine == \"quit\"))\n                exit(0); \n\n            char *cstr = parse(theLine, argc, argv);\n            cout &lt;&lt; \"argv[0] \" &lt;&lt; argv[0] &lt;&lt; \"\\n\";\n            delete[] cstr;\n        }   \n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">5<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved how to operate on global variables in c++ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The problem is that you&#8217;re storing pointers into cstr in argv, but then you&#8217;re deleting cstr at the end of the parse() function. 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