filepath help please,

Hello, i am writing a program and i want to read from a file and create another and write to it, i already have most of it figured out but my problem is the file path, i cant create it to C:\ as it gives issues so i create them at C:\Users\[my username].

how can i get the program to get the name of the user and automatically put it there since my computer would obviously have a different name from anyone else's own?

its not essential but i thought it would be a nice touch if its not something hard to do lol.


Oh another question, how can i make the program open a text file after i finished reading/writing from it so that the user can see the results? or something similar to that. is there also a function to continue running after the notepad is closed?


thanks.

In windows systems you can get the address of any "special" folder as a string...

SHGetSpecialFolderPath()

The CSIDL property is described here

You will need a set of windows headers and libs... If you don't have them with your compiler, these come from the Microsoft SDK

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <shlobj.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// get folder path
int GetShellFolder(char *pName, int FCode)
  { return SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL,pName,FCode,0); }



int main(void)
  { char path[MAX_PATH];

     // get "MyDocuments" folder
     if (GetShellFolder(path,CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS))
       printf("My Documents are at : %s",path);
     else
       printf("Well that didn't work");

   return 0; }

Please note this is untested code... intended only to give you the general idea how it's done.

Thank you very much, will see if i can use it, it looks a little more complex than i expected

Originally Posted by Shadow20

Thank you very much, will see if i can use it, it looks a little more complex than i expected

Yes, well... neither C nor Microsoft ever did anything the easy way.

It's not hard to use... just follow the documentation.