Make user directory a variable?

Im trying to make it so that the user can enter the directory of a file and that this file will be read, the problem is i can seem to get the program to use a variable as the directory, this is roughly what i want to happen, with the users directory as 'direc'

Code:

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do
{
        cout<<"Please Enter the Directory to your Binary File e.g. c:/Documents/file.dat:\n";
        cin>>direc;
        cout<<"The Directory you entered was "<<direc<<" is this correct? (y or n)\n";
        cin>>answer;
}
        while (answer==n)

       
        ifstream file(direc, ios::in|ios::binary);

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So is this possible? any hints?

>So is this possible?
Certainly.

>any hints?

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
  std::string path;

  std::cout<<"Enter the path of your file: ";

  if ( getline ( std::cin, path ) ) {
    std::ifstream in ( path.c_str(), std::ios::binary );

    if ( in ) {
      char ch;

      while ( in.get ( ch ) )
        std::cout<< int ( ch ) <<'\n';
    }
  }
}

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It's been called many things, but... "Directory"? :)

On a side note, your input method is certainly annoying. I don't often get asked for "confirmation" when I try to open a file through some dialog...