On 23 May 2007 13:51:52 -0700, Jona <me***********@hotmail.comwrote
in comp.lang.c++:
Issue:
*Get the path location of my executable.
The standard C++ language does not define the operation of file
systems, because different operating systems implement them very
differently. So the C++ language has no concept of path, nor any
functions that deal with it.
The first string in the second argument to main, conventionally called
argv[0], might contain the full path of your executable, depending on
your operating system, or it might not.
Semi Fix..
*Using getcwd() or plainly giving no path would also do the job...
say reading a file...
There is no function "getcwd()" in the standard C++ library. If your
platform provides such a function, it is an extension and your
compiler and platform define it, not the C++ language.
*The problem is when I call other functions like...
CreateDirectory("foo",NULL)
it changes my default directory to \foo folder...
so when I call getcwd() or simply don't give a path to access a file,
now the default folder is foo ....
Any Idea why this happens? how can it be defaulted back to its
original path?
is there a better way to do this?
You need to ask in a platform specific newsgroup. In your case,
news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is a good one.
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