Please Help

[chetan21]

I am writing a program to open a folder which is like

#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
char STRG[80]="";
char STRG1[80]="explorer //C$/ettings/Tj/Dp";
system(STRG1);
}

it should take path "//C$/ettings/Tj/Dp"
but it is taking "/C$/ettings j/Dp"
I know that compiler do not read \t,\\ as a normal character but then whats the solution?

[Orjan]

I guess you would have to escape your path:

\\\\C$\\Settings\\Tj\\Dp

[marwex89]

Yeah, explorer takes paths with backslashes, which are used for escape characters in C and C++, so you'll have to write \\ for one \.

[mindblaster]

yes its fault of escape sequences.

[dargueta]

No, it's Windows' fault. Everyone else (i.e. MacOS, Linux, UNIX, etc.) uses the forward slash. I would suggest using MAX_PATH as the buffer size, by the way. Less chance of buffer overruns. Or better yet, use a C++ string and then just call

std::string path = "explorer C:\\really\\long\\path";
system(path.c_str());

[mhaqs]

You just need to understand it all for Windows. It is the opposite for all other OSes.

[dargueta]

Exactly. Welcome to CodeCall, mhaqs.

[marwex89]

lol yeah it's weird really..

[dargueta]

I know! Windows is written in C...didn't anyone notice that it's incredibly annoying to write \\\\.\\A\\: every time you want to open a directory for reading? One of the last things I wrote for Windows was this tool that collected partition information out of every valid drive. That was a pain.

[marwex89]

Perhaps Microsoft developers are sadomasochists..