Want to know the ESSID of wireless network via C++ in UBUNTU

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You should set length properly first before using werq,
check this,

int sockfd;
    char * id;
   id = new char[IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE+1];

    struct iwreq wreq;
    memset(&wreq, 0, sizeof(struct iwreq));
    wreq.u.essid.length = IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE+1;

    sprintf(wreq.ifr_name, IW_INTERFACE);

    if((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == -1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open socket \n");
        fprintf(stderr, "errno = %d \n", errno);
        fprintf(stderr, "Error description is : %s\n",strerror(errno));
        exit(1);
    }
    printf("\nSocket opened successfully \n");

    wreq.u.essid.pointer = id;
    if (ioctl(sockfd,SIOCGIWESSID, &wreq) == -1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Get ESSID ioctl failed \n");
        fprintf(stderr, "errno = %d \n", errno);
        fprintf(stderr, "Error description : %s\n",strerror(errno));
        exit(2);
    }

    printf("IOCTL Successfull\n");

    printf("ESSID is %s\n", (char *)wreq.u.essid.pointer);

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