Converting a std::list to char*[size]

Question

for some reason I cannot explain, every single item in the character array...is equal to the last item added to it...for example progArgs[0] through progArgs[size] contains the

Answer 1

You're setting progArgs[count] to the same item every time!

int count = 0;
char *progArgs[commandList.size()]

for(list::iterator t=commandList.begin(); t!=commandList.end(); t++)
{
    char * item = new char[strlen((*t).c_str()) + 1]; //create new character string
    strcpy(item, (*t).c_str()); //convert from const char to char
    progArgs[count] = item;
    count++;
}

Then remember to call delete[] for each element in progArgs.

Personally, I'd create an array of string and convert to char * on the fly as needed.