Thread: Need Help

<code>
HANDLE hFile; // variables are listed at the begining
// there is NO declaration like "var"

HANDLE hTempFile;

DWORD dwBytesRead, dwBytesWritten;

char szTempName[MAX_PATH];
// szTempName would be an Array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char
char buffer[4096];

// Open the file.

hFile = CreateFile("ORIGINAL.TXT", // filename
// double quotes are use like single quote for Text
GENERIC_READ, // open for reading
0, // do not share
NULL, // no security
OPEN_EXISTING, // existing file only
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, // normal file

NULL); // no attr. template
if (hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
ErrorHandler("Could not open file."); // process error
}

// Create a temporary file.

GetTempFileName("\\TEMP", // dir. for temp. files
"NEW", // temp. filename prefix
0, // create unique name
szTempName); // buffer for name

hTempFile = CreateFile((LPTSTR) szTempName, // filename
// the (LPTSTR) szTempName is roughly like Typecasting in Pascal
// PChar(szTempName);
GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, // open for read-write

0, // do not share
NULL, // no security
CREATE_ALWAYS, // overwrite existing file
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, // normal file
NULL); // no attr. template

if (hTempFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
ErrorHandler("Could not create temporary file.");
}

do
{
if (ReadFile(hFile, buffer, 4096,
&dwBytesRead, NULL)) {
// the & above is roughly like the @ in Pascal
CharUpperBuff(buffer, dwBytesRead);

WriteFile(hTempFile, buffer, dwBytesRead,
&dwBytesWritten, NULL);
}
} while (dwBytesRead == 4096);

CloseHandle(hFile);
CloseHandle(hTempFile);

// Move the temporary file to the new text file.

if (!MoveFile(szTempName, "ALLCAPS.TXT")) {
ErrorHandler("Could not move temp. file.");
}

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why doesnt this work?

excuse me, i was in a hurry and i posted the wrong code :-/. I'm trying to write a program that moves a text file to another location. here is the real code ;-):

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    if(!MovFile("C:\temp.txt", "C\temp\temp.txt"))
    {
        cout<<"MoveFile failed!";
        getch()
        return 0;
    }
return 0;
}

after doing what you said here's the code:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    if(!MoveFile("C:\\temp.txt", "C\\temp\\temp.txt"))
    {
        cout<<"MoveFile failed!";
        getch();
        return 0;
    }
return 0;
}

but MoveFile() still fails

ahh! Never mind i just didnt put ":" after volume label C lol. Thank you alot.