opening a batch file from c++

Hi, I was wondering how to open a bat file at the end of a program. we'll say the file was test.bat, and it was in c:\ ... any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by twomers

Hi, I was wondering how to open a bat file at the end of a program. we'll say the file was test.bat, and it was in c:\ ... any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!

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What means open ?
if you mean run

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system("c:\\test.bat");

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Kurt

that's perfect Kurt!!! thanks a mil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It depends on what you want to do.

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#include <iostream> //cout
#include <fstream> //ifstream, ofstream
#include <string>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
        //read from file:
        ifstream inFile("C:\\TestData\\test.bat");
        if(!inFile)
        {
                cout<<"couldn't open file"<<endl;
                return 1;
        }
       
        string str;
        inFile>>str;
        cout<<str<<endl;
       
        inFile.close();

        //append text to the end of the file:
        ofstream outFile("C:\\TestData\\test.bat", ios::app);
       
        outFile<<endl<<"some text";


        return 0;
}

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For system() you need to include <cstdlib>.

If you want to run it in a seperate DOS window, you can usually use

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system("start test.bat");

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