Input file path

[Muffinthief]

This is probably a noob question, but how do i have the user input a file path which is then opened by the program.

cout << "File:";
cin >> file_path;
ifstream file (file_path);

The above code returns some long complicated errors, and i don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance!

Peace.

[ilikepython]

This is probably a noob question, but how do i have the user input a file path which is then opened by the program.

cout << "File:";
cin >> file_path;
ifstream file (file_path);

The above code returns some long complicated errors, and i don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance!

Peace.

How is file_path declared?

[Muffinthief]

sorry i forgot file_path is a std::string.

[Ganon11]

Instead of

ifstream file(file_path);

try

ifstream file(file_path.c_str());

and see if that fixes the problems.