code in variable
 

would it work if i put a code in a string and then just placed the string by itself like this:


yeah i know the coding is bad but im in a lil bit of a hurry cuz im leaving in a few minutes so i didnt have the time to write something but would that work?

if not does any one have an alternative method of doing something like this?

Nope. I'd say more, but I'm in a bit of a hurry.

lol alright ill explain a lil more seen as i just saved myself a bit of time and i notice sum sarcasm in the air but what i want to do is allow the user to type in a code and have the computer run it

like say the user inputted:


could i have the code saved and run later so that the program actually outputs "hello, how are you?" on the screen

Sounds like you'd want to save the code to a file entered and later compile the file with a compiler.

oh alright i was afraid of that

This sounds like a job for an embedded scripting language like Lua. Here's a quick tutorial on how to embed Lua in C.

It wouldn't work the way you tried to make it work. I didn't know you could do this, but if you have a code which saves thisisastring as a printf statement, and then you use another printf statement and print out the variable thisisastring - it will print out hello world followed by a few integers. not sure why, maybe someone else can explain.

so..............

you want a user to enter data, then you will send it to stdout at a later time?

what are you trying to do?

you could cin>>some stuff

then sleep() for awhile, then cout<<their bullshit;

this sounds weird. please say exactly what you're trying to do.

It sounds like the OP is trying to write an interpreter. That would work for an interpreted language but it would be perhaps less than trivial to do for compiled languages.

Or he's trying to write shellcode....