I wanna have my program be able to let the user manually open a text file by destination and retrieve data from it, I have everything like ifstream good, i just need to know how to let the user cin something like C:/files/myfile.txt, but with the ifstream format I need to use the format ifstream stringname("texthere"); but cant let the user modify the "texthere", im sure its just a simply command, plz help
Manutebecker 0 Junior Poster in Training
ivailosp 11 Junior Poster
string dir_name;
getline(cin, dir_name);
ifstream file(dir_name.c_str()); Manutebecker 0 Junior Poster in Training
still doesnt work, any specific header for this, just dont work on dev c++
ivailosp 11 Junior Poster
#include <string>
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