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Please suggest why is it giving a run time error as "non portable type conversion"


ptr=popen(system(command),"r");


what should be done?


thanks

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system() returns an integer, but popen()'s first argument expects a string. What should be done depends on what you want to happen, but Ed would guess this:

ptr = popen(command, "r");
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