you are not idiot, Narue is too Smart.
It is called "having seen Narue" snydrome in medicine. That happens to me a lot when i post a c/c++ question and get an answer from Narue.

i had missed this style of yours.
Recently Kerry King - Slayer's lead guitar player, signed me his poster and we had a photo together. Since that day, i feel like i am a new person. I am inspired....

i am not surfing, after continuous thinking of 45 minutes or so my brain stops for a while, to rest that portion of my brain i focus on another thing, which is usually one of the forums in daniweb,...

here is the corrected version :

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
//local constants

No my question was about not processing escape characters, it was not about file paths. But thanks for the answers, it is also good to know what not to search for.

i have a problem instantiating an object, to demostrate that problem i created three files named body.cpp, head.h, head2.h

the content of the files are as follows:
body.cpp:

#include "head.h"...