Well, if you're working in C++, you <I>should</I> be using the string class and not character arrays (IIRC, the string class has search and replace methods, but I may be hallucinating).

There are better solutions already and c++ has them already when using new(); size of the array is stored “4 bytes left of the pointer”. This works, because when you free memory your pointer ...

I'm getting confused here, I want to pass a character array to rfile() and argv[] happens to be an array of character arrays, so argv[i + 1] should return the pointer to the first element of said ...