map (associative array) loses values?

Hi there,

I've never done this before, so I don't know about any layout
possibilities. My apologies :)

The problem is this:

I've written a function:

map<const char*, int> *SearchText::countWords()
{
    map<const char*, int> *table = new map<const char*, int>;

    (*table)["aap"] = 1;
    (*table)["noot"] = 2;

    cout << (*table)["aap"] << endl;
    cout << (*table)["noot"] << endl;

    return table;
}

Which I want to use like this:

try {
    SearchText *text = new SearchText("test.txt");
    map<const char*, int> *table = text->countWords();
    cout << (*table)["aap"] << endl;
    cout << (*table)["noot"] << endl;
}
catch(int ex) {
    cout << "Could not open file." << endl;
}

However, I get the following output:

1
2
0
0

Meaning that the first two output statements (in the function itself)
do their job and the second two do not.

I guess it's some sort of allocation problem, but what could I do
different? I guess I could use maybe malloc or calloc, but shouldn't
this be also possible with new?

BTW making table static in the function didn't help.