how to save my current working directory into a variable

I was thinking to have my program print its directory to a file and then
system("cd") >> "ok.txt";

read from "ok.txt" to retrieve the current working directory, but it is a bit complicated.

Any other idea to save my current working directory to a variable?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.80%29.aspx
or
GetCurrentDirectory function (Windows)

You can also use GetModuleFileName function (Windows). This leaves you with a string with "yourprogram.exe" on the end, so you might need some extra lines of code to chop it down to where you want.

I had trouble with GetCurrentDirectory when running a program on my laptop that was stored on my desktop. It was a while ago now and I gave up pretty quickly, but it wouldn't give me the answer I needed. It may have been due to debugging it through VS2010, thus blurring the actual 'working directory'. GetModuleFileName doesn't share the possible ambiguity.

Wow! Thank you all. They are all constructive to my code! Thanks.