Memory access violation. What's wrong with this seemingly simple program?

Question

This is a quick program I just wrote up to see if I even remembered how to start a c++ program from scratch. It\'s just reversing a string (in place), and looks generally c

Answer 1

You can't change string literals (staticly allocated). To do what you want, you need to use something like:

int main()
{
    char *str = new char[a_value];
    sprintf(str, "%s", );
    strReverse(str);
    delete [] str;
    return 0;
}

[edit] strdup also works, also strncpy... i'm sure there's a variety of other methods :)