Thread: writing to file

hey,
I am pretty new to c++
I am using the dev c++ compiler (if that makes a difference)

Anyway I've been doing a bunch of beginner tutorials and finally reached the part about writing and reading files. Here's the code I'm using

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

ofstream asdf("C:\asdf.dat");
asdf << "hello";
asdf.close();

  return 0;
}

I run this and it does not have any errors. It runs, but nothing actually happens. As I understand it should create a file called asdf.dat with the words hello in it.

I've looked around at several tutorials, and they're all using this code. If someone can help that would be realy appriciated

"c:\\asdf.dat" You also may want to look for a file in C:\ named " sdf.dat" or [something]sdf.dat "\a" is the "alarm" character. std::cout << '\a'; beeps (on some consoles)

naturally, '\\' is just one slash. Often "c:/asdf.dat" will work, even on dos liniage OS's, but I stll prefer to go with the leaning toothpick sindrome. It's more likely to work in windowsville and breaks on unix, where your paths would have to be moved around anyway, but this is less likely to suprise you. Headers get real slashes
i.e. #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

thanks guys that fixed it.
Why is it C:\\ though?

that makes sense, thanks