pdCURSES and addstr compatibility with strings problems

Question

Hey so i'm trying to get addstr() in pdCurses to work (windows curses) with the preferred string class so I made the function the following string_to_80char() function, which is supposed to take a string and return an 80 character long char array (the number of characters fit on one line in the console) since this is the only parameter addstr seems to accept...

However when running the following code i do get the "Just a string" printed but with a random character like an '@' or '4' like 50 spaces after it.....

WHATS THE PROBLEM?? Thanks for the help! =)

#include <curses.h>         /* ncurses.h includes stdio.h */  
#include <string> 
#include <vector>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

char* string_to_80char (const string& aString)
{
    int stringSize = aString.size();
    char charArray[90];

    if(stringSize <= 80)
    {
    for(int I = 0; I< stringSize; I++)
        charArray[I] = aString[I];
    for(int I = stringSize; I < sizeof(charArray); I++)
        charArray [I] = ' ';
    return charArray;
    }

    else
    {
    char error[] = {"STRING TOO LONG"};
    return error;
    }
};


int main()
{
    //   A bunch of Curses API set up:
    WINDOW *wnd;

 wnd = initscr(); // curses call to initialize window and curses mode
 cbreak(); // curses call to set no waiting for Enter key
 noecho(); // curses call to set no echoing

 std::string mesg[]= {"Just a string"};     /* message to be appeared on the screen */
 int row,col;               /* to store the number of rows and *
                     * the number of colums of the screen */
 getmaxyx(stdscr,row,col);      /* get the number of rows and columns */
 clear(); // curses call to clear screen, send cursor to position (0,0)

 string test = string_to_80char(mesg[0]);
 char* test2 = string_to_80char(mesg[0]);
 int test3 = test.size();
 int test4 = test.length();
 int test5 = sizeof(test2);
 int test6 = sizeof(test);

 addstr(string_to_80char(mesg[0]));
 refresh();
 getch();


 cout << endl << "Try resizing your window(if possible) and then run this program again";
  system("PAUSE");
 refresh();
  system("PAUSE");

 endwin();
 return 0;
}