GetCurrentDirectory + '\\'

Hi all,

If I use GetCurrentDirectory to get the current path for creating a file, it returns an un-escaped path causing an error.

How can I easily get the current directory with escaped '\' i.e.

c:\\my\\path

rather than

c:\my\path

Or am I just being stupid.

TIA, rotis23

OK, I was being stupid.

I was running as a service and it was returning :

C:\WINDOWS\system32

How can I get the path of the service executable?

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Originally posted by rotis23
Hi all,

If I use GetCurrentDirectory to get the current path for creating a file, it returns an un-escaped path causing an error.

How can I easily get the current directory with escaped '\' i.e.

c:\\my\\path

rather than

c:\my\path

Or am I just being stupid.

TIA, rotis23

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To explain where your thinking went wrong - the slashes that exist in the path have already 'been escaped'. Just because the C/C++ language (and apparently the code for this forum) uses '\\' as an escape character prefix for other unprintable characters, it means that it now has to use something else for a real '\\' - they chose '\\\'. So, when you type '\\\', you are not making a string with '\\\' (i.e. 2 characters), you are making a string with '\\' (i.e. 1 character). I hope that helps your understanding a bit.

Look into GetModuleFileName().

Thats the answer - thanks.