Storing system calls in C

Liu

Is there any way to store the output of system calls in C?

I.e. piping the output of the Unix command system("ls") into a string which will be used later in the program.

The only method I can think of right now is system("ls>temp"), read contents of temp, system("rm temp -f"). If you have better suggestions, please give me some.

Gratitude for help.

Liu

I just discovered the answer a couple days ago, a friend told me a way to do it, for those interested in the answer you can use popen.