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create path

Hi,
I need to create path to write binary file. I have path to MyDocuments folder and now I try to do some thing like that MyDocuments/bin.file

CHAR folder_path[MAX_PATH];
HRESULT result = SHGetFolderPathA(NULL, CSIDL_PERSONAL, NULL, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, folder_path);
string path = folder_path.c_str() + "/myfile.bin";

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this path I'll use in

ofstream outfile(path, std::ios_base::out | std::ios_base::app);

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For some reason the way I create path wrong.

tampnic

One thing I notice is that folder_path is declared as a CHAR array, so I wouldn't expect folder_path.c_str() to compile.

CHAR folder_path[MAX_PATH];
HRESULT result = SHGetFolderPathA(NULL, CSIDL_PERSONAL, NULL, HGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, folder_path);
string path = ((string)folder_path) + "\\myfile.bin";

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would work but be careful of the directory separator, I haven't tested the validity of the path so maybe only a single backslash "\" is required .

Cheers,
Chris

mastiSoft

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Hi Chris.
It still didn't work. Maybe I forgot to include some thing

#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>//to get path in windows
#include <shlobj.h>//to get path in windows
#include <fstream> //to write/read binary files
#include <sys/stat.h>
using namespace std;

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line 3 in your code gives a

tampnic

Its probably an ASCII/Unicode thing. What character set are you compiling for?

The only things I included to do a quick test were

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "windows.h"
#include "Shlobj.h"
#include <string>
using namespace std;

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Maybe try

string path = ((string)folder_path) + string("\\myfile.bin");
// or
string path = ((string)folder_path) + L"\\myfile.bin";
// or
string path = ((string)folder_path) + _T("\\myfile.bin");

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to see if any of those compile with your preprocessor directives

Cheers,
Chris

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mastiSoft

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Thank you Chris,
Now when I looked at your code I found that I forgot include <string>.
Every thing working fine now.