get output of system()

[mamali]

is there any function that execute a command on shell and return the answer
for example when i pass "ls" to this function it return list of files in current directory
thanks

[helios]

No, but system() returns the return value of the program's main(), IINM.

[Duthomhas]

It returns the value returned by the shell, which with cmd.exe and sh is the value returned by the program's main function.

[chrisname]

That never seems to work for me. I wanted a command line calculator ages ago; but I never got the right answer. Then again, that may be becuase I was casting argv[i] instead of using atoi()...