Creating Directories in Console Programs

[kartracer12]

so i'm making a simple program and in it i want the users to be able to type in a name and it makes an empty directory. This is what i came up with

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <direct.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main (void){
	string sDirName;
	cin >> sDirName;
	_mkdir(sDirName);
	return 0;
}

but it comes up with an error saying that the _mkdir() function can't take the std:string and make it a const char*. How do i get around this problem? I'm using vc++ and it's a win32 console program. Thanks in advance.

[anders43]

try

_mkdir( sDirName.c_str() );

_mkdir is a C-API and doesn't know about std::string

[kartracer12]

that's exactly what i was looking for, thanks a ton for the quick responce =)