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copy a file

Mar 9th, 2008

If I have a file like this and I want to copy this "File1" to "File2", how is this possible to do.
So I will copy File1 so the new file with have the name "File2.txt".
I know that:

std::copy member exists but are not really sure how to use it.

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"C:\\File1.txt"

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Re: copy a file

Mar 9th, 2008

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std::ifstream fin( "file1.txt" ) ;
std::ofstream fout( "file2.txt" ) ;
fout << fin.rdbuf() ;
std::ifstream fin( "file1.txt" ) ;
std::ofstream fout( "file2.txt" ) ;
fout << fin.rdbuf() ;

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Re: copy a file

Mar 9th, 2008

That worked great. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by vijayan121

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std::ifstream fin( "file1.txt" ) ;
std::ofstream fout( "file2.txt" ) ;
fout << fin.rdbuf() ;
std::ifstream fin( "file1.txt" ) ; std::ofstream fout( "file2.txt" ) ; fout << fin.rdbuf() ;