hi, im trying to write a program that would run a system command using the system() function. My problem occurs in that the system() function appearently only accepts literal strings, how would i pass a variable into it. For instance run system("nbtstat -A a.b.c.d") where a, b, c, and d would be variables running in nested for loops. I was thinking maybe there was a way to store an int inside a char or combine an int and char into a literal string? thanks for your time

You are partially correct. system() will accept only a string, although it doesn't have to be a literal string. To do what you want, you need to create a string containing the command and parameters that you need and pass that string to system(). Something like: char command[100]; sprintf(command,"nbtstat -A %d.%d.%d.%d",a,b,c,d); system(command); sprintf works just like printf except that it writes it's string into the memory pointed to by the first parameter (in this case the array 'command')

wow, thankyou so much, i really appreciate your help :)