beside of strtok the idea of wayside is good.

beside of typo's the below should do the job.

Regards, Alex



#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

string getexepath(const string& file)
{
     struct stat fs;
     // first check  the file only
     if (stat(file.c_str(), &fs) == 0)
           return file;
     // get working directory
     string cwd(512, '\0');
     if (getcwd(&cwd[0], cwd.length()) == NULL)
           return ""; // error retrieving current working directory
     cwd.resize(strlen(cwd.c_str());  // make correct length
     // check whether backslash or slash was used
     int pos = (int)cwd.find_first_of("\\/");
     char cslash = '/';  // take forward slash as default
     if (pos != string::npos && cwd[pos] == '\\')
         cslash = '\\';
     string path = cwd + cslash + file;
     if (stat(path.c_str(), &fs) == 0)
           return path;
     
     string pathenv = getenv("PATH");
     pathenv += ';';  // add semicolon for parsing
     int lpos = 0;
     int npos = 0;
     while ((npos = (int)pathenv.find(';', lpos)) != string::npos)
     {
            if (lpos < npos)
            {
                  path = pathenv.substr(lpos, npos - lpos) + cslash + file;
                  if (stat(path.c_str(), &fs) == 0)
                       return path;
            }
            lpos = npos+1;
     }
      return "";
}

>>>> I did #include <windows.h>
DWORD is defined in windef.h which was included by windows.h.

I assume you included it above stdafx.h where it was ignored. Or you forgot to switch off Precompiled Header.

>>>> I think the solution GetModuleFileName is the best..
That will only work on windows platform. And you have to include all windows api via windows.h.

But beside of that you are right.