Solve Visual Studio Not Finding Downloaded File

[andryd9]

Homework Statement

I am trying to write a program in Visual Studio that opens a file downloaded to my computer. I have downloaded the file but Visual Studio can't seem to find it. Anyone know what I need to do?

TIA!

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The Attempt at a Solution

 

[Mark44]

Homework Statement

I am trying to write a program in Visual Studio that opens a file downloaded to my computer. I have downloaded the file but Visual Studio can't seem to find it. Anyone know what I need to do?

By defualt, Visual Studio looks in the directory where it puts the executable for your program. If the file you're looking for isn't there, VS won't find it. You'll probably need to include the full path to your file in your VS program.

BTW what language is your program in? Visual Studio isn't a language.

 

[andryd9]

Hi Mark44,
Thanks for your reply. I am aware that Visual Studio is not a language :) I am coding in C++. How does one include the full path to a file, anyway?

 

[Mark44]

Can you show me the section of your code where you try to open the file?

 

[andryd9]

void(main)
{
ifstream inFile;
inFile.open("PORTLAND-ME.txt");
inFile>>year>>month>>day>>etc, etc
}

Nothing profound. This file exists in my computer as named. Not sure why VS can't find it.

}

 

[Student100]

Open the folder containing your project. Drop the text file in there. You're done.
Alternatively you can just use "something/somethingelse/somethingelseagain/file.txt"

You'll have to figure out the something's, but I hope that won't be too hard.

VS isn't going to do a search of the entire computer to find your file, you'll need to actually tell it where's it at.

 

[Mark44]

Like Student100 said, you'll have to either put the file in the default directory for the application, or include the full path, which will need to include the drive letter, like this: "c:\..."