Is there a way to ask a user to enter a full path name and then open the file that way?
I've got this right now and assumed it would work but it doesn't
Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing?
Code:printf("Enter full path and file name"); scanf("%s",&path_name); readfile = fopen(path_name, "r");
>scanf("%s",&path_name);
You don't need the &, otherwise it should work. Try using perror to see if you have any errors opening the file. Most of the time the path will be mistyped or the file doesn't exist, such is the way with interactive input. It's usually wrong.
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Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(void) { char foo[BUFSIZ]; FILE *fp; printf("Enter path: "); fflush(stdout); if (fgets(foo, sizeof(foo), stdin)) { strtok(foo, "\n"); if ((fp = fopen(foo, "r")) == NULL) { perror(foo); } else { fclose(fp); } } return(0); } /* Output Enter path: c:\mydir\myfile.txt c:\mydir\myfile.txt: No such file or directory */
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thanks guys for all your help
I didn't say it on my previous post, so I thought I'd better say it now... scanf() isn't a good choice for grabbing text from the user, as it can easily assist in buffer overflows. As you probably noticed, I recommended fgets() .
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