Thread: file I/O problem

Hey, I'm helping my friend with this program. Two problems:
1. Is there an escape character in C++ to ignore a \ in a path?
for example in Perl I would just use another \ as in C:\\Progra~1\
2. I need to copy all contents from one file and output to another, but the .get and .put aren't working. Is there a better way to do this or does the syntax need to be corrected?

Code:

#include <iostream>   //i/o library
#include <string>     // string library
#include <fstream>       // both input/output files
#include <cstdlib>


using namespace std;

int main()  // starting main function
{
    ifstream myinputfile; // declaring input file
    ofstream myoutfile;  // declaring output file
    cout << "Begin file Copy\n"; // print to screen
    
    myinputfile.open ("C:|myinputfile.txt"); //opening input file
    
    if (!myinputfile)  // testing success
    {
      cout << "Error!!\n";  // if unsuccessful
      }
    
    myoutfile.open ("C:|myoutfile.txt"); //opening output file
    
    if (!myoutfile) //testing success
    {
      cout << "Error!!\n"; // if unsucessful
      exit (100);
                    
    }
    
    int line;  // declaring a variable
    
    while (myinputfile.get (line)) {
    myoutfile.put (line);
} 
    
    myinputfile.close (); // closing input file
    myoutfile.close (); // closing output file
    cout << "End file copy\n"; // print to screen
    exit (102);
    
    return 0; // end of main function
}

Thanks for your help