Assignment of string to structure element

Question

My program crashes when I try to assign a string value to a member of a structure. My suspicion is that the member (of type string) within the structure was never properly alloc

Answer 1

So before I get to answering your question I just wanted to say that you should not use Malloc in c++ unless you are forced to. This answer explains why fairly well.

In what cases do I use malloc vs new?

With that said changing this line

DataRow* node = (DataRow*)malloc(sizeof(DataRow));

To this

DataRow* node = new DataRow;

Will fix your problem