creating a text file

hello,

after long time of searching I came here for your help.

This is my program:
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
FILE *fr;

fr=fopen("cool.txt", "w");
if (!fr) { perror("fopen"); } else { printf("Nothing Wrong"); }

fprintf(fr, "hello");

fclose(fr);

return 0;
}

I am using Xcode. After I compile it, I got printed: Nothing Wrong.. But when I want to find my text file, I can not.. I tried even searching through spotlight, but I could not find it..

Please help ...

It does get created but it does so in a Debug folder for your Xcode project. On my machine, it ended up here: /Users/vansmith/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Test-hegcxqhvaepxatdplarpdfunsfrb/Build/Products/Debug/cool.txt. Go to /Users/vansmith/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ and start working your way down through the folders to find it (note - the folders in there should contain your project name).

thank yout Very Much .. and do you know how to redirect it anywhere "nearer" ?

Be explicit about where you want the input instead of just locating it where the binary is run from.

You can specify a full path name in the open() instead of just the file name.
Alternatively, there are functions to set the current path to something " nearer " before you do the open()
Don't forget to set the path back to what it was before the program terminates.
So the sequence can be get path(), set path(), open() etc.... and then set path() to what it was before.

Cheers ... McBie

okey.. that sounds logical.. so, example could be: fr=fopen("\user\documents\hello\cool.txt", "w")? .. and when I use
if((fr=fopen("cool.txt", "r")) == NULL)
printf("hi");

it prints hi, even though I put the text file in the same directory as my project..

You might be mixing things up .....
you opened a file in a specific path.
Then you open a file for " read " in the path where you are running the binary from ... does that file exist in that directory ? I assume not and that is why your file pointer = NULL and it prints " hi "

Edit .... you are also using the same file pointer for 2 different files

Cheers ... McBie

Be careful with your paths as well - \user\documents\hello\cool.txt is not a valid Unix path. You'd be better off using something to get the home directory of the user.

It's here that I've exhausted the little C/C++ I know since I'm not sure how you do that.

okey... to sum this up:

my project is saved in: users/documents/

I want to create there my new text file called cool.txt .. I would do it:
fr=fopen("users/documents/cool.txt", "w");
And in other program I want to read this file, so I would write:
fr=fopen("users/documents/cool.txt", "r");

where is my mistake?

Assuming that the pathname convention is correct for UNIX then there is no error if you are using 2 different programs
Similar to VanSmith, I have no knowledge of the UNIX pathname conventions in C/C++
Also be prepared that you might run into ' authorisation ' issues if you ( as a user ) do not have the correct permissions to create/write/read a file in a specific path.

Cheers ... McBie

simon77 said:

fr=fopen("users/documents/cool.txt", "w");

Click to expand...

Again, as a caution, users/documents/cool.txt is not a valid directory. OS X home directories are located at /Users/<your username> (replace this with your short hand username).

thank you very much ..