file open in C

[mohamed farouk]

how to open a file in C ?
the path of the file is specified by the user

[sicarie]

Have you started this? Where are you stuck? Did you read the location in yet? How are you storing it?

[masterofthebus]

files are read as streams, as outputs you can see on std::cout.
what you need to do is to use fstream. for example, if you will only read the file you should open it with an ifstream

ifstream input;
input.open(string path);

when you finish reading you should close the file.

There are good sites for this. like cpp reference, just google it

[sicarie]

files are read as streams, as outputs you can see on std::cout.
what you need to do is to use fstream. for example, if you will only read the file you should open it with an ifstream

ifstream input;
input.open(string path);

when you finish reading you should close the file.

There are good sites for this. like cpp reference, just google it

That's C++, not C.

[Simonius]

You need to declare a file pointer,
Then a fopen, you have a few acces methods so just decide which you need (easily googable).

[mohamed farouk]

i have a transport stream file & i want to open it & analyze it ,
but i want to make a program that the user is the one who specifies the file location on the computer
not
*f =fopen(C:\\project\\................)
i wanna
printf("Enter the location of the file");
then after that what should i do ?

[Laharl]

You'd use scanf to get the user input from command line and set it to a string.