hi i got an problem about reading my files i want to decide which file to open in the program not before anyone now a solution? :)
string fil;
cout<<"which file? : ";
cin>>fil;
ifstream myfile(fil);cant see why this dont work...
Dendei
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Jump to PostWell you might want to use getline(), but the reason it doesn't work is that the ifstream constructor requires a C-Style string i.e. null terminated character array, not an object of type string. Thus you will need to use.
ifstream myfile(fil.c_str());Chris
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Freaky_Chris
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Well you might want to use getline(), but the reason it doesn't work is that the ifstream constructor requires a C-Style string i.e. null terminated character array, not an object of type string. Thus you will need to use.
ifstream myfile(fil.c_str());Chris
Dendei
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works nice thank you :P
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