Thread: printing strings (was similar problem)

Hey...

I am having a related problem - perhaps someone could help. I'm sure it's really easy.

I'm using:

Code:

char *sp_filename = "C:\\Program Files\\Dev-Cpp\\Examples\\example.out";

printf("Attempting to open %c\n",*sp_filename);

fp = fopen(sp_filename,"r");
    
     if(fp == NULL) {
        perror("Cannot open file");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

which doesn't seem to work - all I get is:

Attempting to open C
Cannot open file: No such file or directory

How do I make it take the whole string, and not just the first letter? I've tried various things like setting sp_filename[BUFSIZ] etc.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Yeh, I already figured that out... Though it still didn't want to open the file, due to what I expect was the space in Program Files (since putting the file somewhere else works fine).

that's strange that a space in the directory would screw things up, but i suspect you're on windows 98 or maybe 95? it works fine for me on win2kpro... something about number of characters supported and stuff on the file system, maybe it's even just the file system, i've got ntfs and i'm guessing you're on fat32...

Nope... Win XP over here...

how about your file system? is it fat32? if i remember correctly windows xp by DEFAULT wants to set up fat32 but you can change it to ntfs whenever you want... that's my final guess, otherwise i don't know what would cause that. if you wanna change to ntfs by the way and you don't already know which you probably do, command line type in "convert c:\ /fs:ntfs" and c is the name of the drive you wanna convert... i might guess that would do the trick if you're willing to switch to ntfs, but that's up to your personal preference and really this is another topic so i'll shut up now...