c++ - const char* in my class has junk character(s) after it's returned from function -

class:

class myclass {   public:     myclass(void);      const char* server;    private:     char pidchar[6];     int pidnum;  }; 

the function

myclass parseini(const char* file) {     myclass inioptions;     csimpleinia ini;     ini.setunicode();     ini.loadfile(file);     const char* server = ini.getvalue("", "server", "");     inioptions.server = server;     std::cout << server << "\n"; // prints correct value here     fflush(stdout);     return inioptions;   } 

calling main function

int _tmain(int argc, tchar* argv[]) {   myclass options;  options = parseini("myapp.ini");  std::cout << options.server << "\n"; // prints junk here  return 0; } 

what did wrong?

the const char* returned getvalue() belonged ini object. when exited parseini() function, ini went out of scope , destroyed, mean pointer no longer valid.

try using std::string server member type instead of const char*.