Ifstream and String [?]

[Dilmerv]

Good Afternoon,
A quick question?

is it possible to this

string File_Name[1] = {"Test.txt"};

ifstream inFile(File_Name[0]);

if not could you guys show me a way of doing something similar?

[SirCrono6]

You need to put .c_str() after File_Name[0] (one element arrays are basically useless, why are you using one?), which will return the char* which the std::ifstream constructor expects, rather than an std::string.

[ZuK]

No that doesn't work. Ifstream doesn't have a constructor that takes a string as parameter.
This would work

string File_Name = "Test.txt";
ifstream inFile(File_Name.c_str());

I changed File_Name to a single string because an array with only one element doesn't make much sense.
Kurt

[Dilmerv]

Basically I have a folder that contains reports for the whole month, and every single day is a separate file.
What I need to do is find a way to read every single file but one thing the file name will change every day!
So I'm trying to figure it out since I'm pretty new with C++

[Dilmerv]

this is what I have so far which I barely started last night

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void Option_1();

int main()
{	
	char selection;
  
	do
	{
		system("cls");
		cout << "\n\n1 - Option " << endl;
		cout << "2 - Quit" << endl;
		cout << "\n Choice: ";

  		selection = cin.get();
		switch( selection)
  		{
  			case '\n':	
						break;
	 	 	case '1': Option_1();             				 
						break;
			case '2':
						break;
			default: cout << '\a';
  		}
    }
		while( selection != '2' );
		return 0;
}

void Option_1() 
{
	string line, last;	
	string myfiles[2] = {"FVT20060301.txt", "FVT20060401.txt"};

	ifstream inFile( myfiles[0].c_str() );
	
	while(getline(inFile, line))
	{
		if (line != "")
		{
			last = line;
		}

	}
	cout << last;

	inFile.close();
	system("pause");

}

[Dilmerv]

I will ask for the file name and store it in a array to be able to open an specific file within my directory

[Dilmerv]

IF I WANT TO ADD A PATH COULD I DO THIS?

ifstream inFile( "Billing_Reports\myfiles[0].c_str()" );

[ZuK]

shure you can add a path. But not this way.
try

string myfile = "FVT20060301.txt";
myfile = "Billing_Reports\\myfiles\\" + myfile;
ifstream inFile(myfile.c_str());

Kurt