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C++ Question (fstream and args)
Sir Carcass
I have been shown the end of my worldRound Rock, TXRegistered User regular
I have been shown the end of my worldRound Rock, TXRegistered User regular
More like arghs. This may be a simple question, but does anyone know why double-clicking the exe of my program creates the output file as expected while dragging files onto it doesn't? Here is my code for reference:
I haven't gotten to the meat to this yet because I can't figure out why it's not creating a file when I drag files onto it.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
fstream output, input;
string h = "this is a test";
output.open("CombinedList.csv", fstream::out);
output.write(h.c_str(),h.size());
cout << "press any key...." << endl;
cin.get();
output.close();
return 0;
}
I haven't gotten to the meat to this yet because I can't figure out why it's not creating a file when I drag files onto it.
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Normally it'd be the same directory the program is in, but in the drag and drop case, a little bit of research indicates it would be your home directory (C:\Users\name or C:\Document and Settings\name) instead.
I'm a little curious why you are dragging files onto it if you're not actually looking at your command line, but perhaps that is a yet to be implemented feature for you.
The ultimate point of this exe is to merge 4 files into 1. The 4 files will be changing each week, so I want to be able to just drag and drop the current 4 onto it. But yeah, I haven't even gotten that far yet.
I just checked, and yep, it's putting it in my users folder. How is that even a good idea.
Is there any way around that?
I also need it to strip out the first line from each file except the first one.
That doesn't seem to help, unfortunately.
If nothing else, I guess I can hardcode a location, but having it put in the working directory would be so much better.
argv[0] should contain a path, but may not be useful. Unfortunately working with a file system is incredibly stupid with C++ at current unless you're using OS specific libraries or Qt/Boost.
Though argv[0] can have relative paths. Which might be an issue with the drag and drop.
Thanks for all of the help so far!