Thread: Finding current path

How do I find the current path of my program? I need to access a directory called \data and ".\\data\\file" does do it.

GetCurrentDirectory() will tell you what the current directory is.
However, you shouldn't assume that the current directory is the directory where your application resides (not that you would).

If you want the directory that contains your running application, use GetModuleFileName().

gg

How'd I mess this up? No errors but it crashes my program... I tried I couple ways but this is the one that compiles:

Code:

LPTSTR file;
DWORD num = 100; 
GetModuleFileName(NULL,file,num);

There's one problem, the program name is added to the end of the path. I need to use that as a starting place for directories around the program. How should I remove the name out of it? Or is there a function that doesn't include the name?

You could use strrchr().

Code:

    char pathname[MAX_PATH];

    GetModuleFileName(NULL, pathname, MAX_PATH);

    // chop off everything past last occurance of '\\'
    char *p = strrchr(pathname, '\\');
    p[1] = NULL;

gg

Okay, here's what I have:

Code:

///works
GetModuleFileName(NULL,file,MAX_PATH);

char *p = strrchr(file, '\\');
p[1] = NULL;
int t;
for (t = 0; file[t] != '\0';t += 1) {
file2[t] = file[t]; 
}
//stops working below
file2[t+=1] = 'd' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'a' ;
file2[t+=1] = 't' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'a' ;
file2[t+=1] = '\\' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'p' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'i' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'c' ;
file2[t+=1] = '.' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'b' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'm' ;
file2[t+=1] = 'p' ;
file2[t+=1] = '\0' ;

Basicly what I want is to make a new var (file2) and add data\pic.bmp to the end. How should I fix that?

strcpy()
strcat()
They show examples for both of those.

gg

It's working perfectly now. Thanks to everyone who help.