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Hi all

I am a noob to C++ and I want to make a program that copies a file from wherever previously specified to the location of where the program is running from, I looked on google but I cant find anything I can understand can somebody please point me in the right direction. I would be very grateful.


Many thanks

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CopyFile, perhaps? Or you could just read the file into memory, and write it back into a new file.

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How would I read it into memory and so on I have never heard of that?

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Open the input file with ifstream. Open the destination file with ofstream. Then use rdbuf(),

outputFile << inputFile.rdbuf();

Naturally, you'll still have to implement error-checking.

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