Thread: Reading from a file using fstream.

Hi guys.

Can you please tell me why this code prints garbage and loops forever.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main (int agrc, char* argv[])
{
	fstream file;
	fstream output;
	
	wchar_t *c1;

	if (argv[1] == NULL)
	{
		cout << "Usage: Profiler <file-name.c>" << endl;
		exit (1);
	}
	
	file.open ("c:\258_assignment2\Profiling\ff.c", ios::in);
	output.open ("output", ios::out);

	
	while (!file.eof() )
	{
		char c;
		c = file.get();
		cout << c << endl;
		output << c << endl;
	}

	return 0;
}

I also have two questions:
1- how can i check if the file opened successfully?
2- i need to pass the argv[1] to open as filename, but i get an error about wchar_t type. I ca't seems to pass char*. How can i solve this?

Thanks!

Alright, thank you.
It seems i was trying without the escaping, and i was also trying just ff.c, thinking it should work since they're in the same forlder.