How do I pass a path in file handling with C++ to create or open a file?

[Shamshad Alam]

I have a folder "pics" in g: drive. There I want to create some text.txt file. Thus, the final path is "g:\pics\text.txt".
How can I do that?

[divideby0]

for writing

ofstream outf("g:\\pics\\text.txt");

for reading

ifstream inf("g:\\pics\\text.txt");

for either

fstream f_io("g:\\pics\\text.txt", ios::in | ios::out);

If your path is stored in a variable, then if using a char array for the path, replace the string literal with the variable name. If using a member of the string class, use string_obj.c_str() or maybe string_obj.data() instead of the string literal "g:\\pics\\text.txt"

Hope that helps

[Shamshad Alam]

Sorry Sir its not working! Please help some other way!

[divideby0]

I can't really tell what you're wanting to do without seeing what you've tried. The more detail you can provide as in code, error messages (if any), and such the more likely someone will be able to help you out.

Did you include the fstream header? Did you check the status of trying to open the file? Is the path valid? Is the disk write-protected? Try something like

if you're using the standard namespace

fstream f("g:\\pics\\text.txt", ios::in);
 
if(!f.is_open())
   cerr << "unable to open file";
else
   cout << "file is open";

if you're not using the standard namespace,

std::fstream f("g:\\pics\\text.txt", ios::in);
 
if(!f.is_open())
   std::cerr << "unable to open file";
else
   std::cout << "file is open";

what does that show?