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

You have to create a new struct and not use malloc at all.

So use:

DataRow* node = new DataRow;

you should also take care of cleaning it up like so:

delete node;

and in case you don't want to allocate it from the heap you can do this as well:

DataRow node;