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HoKy22
HoKy22

Reputation: 4217

File cannot be read in when using Visual Studio 2010 Debugger

So, I am using https://stackoverflow.com/a/298713/1472828 to put an argument "hands.txt" (my agrv[1], which is a file I wanna open) in my command arguments. I have tried both hands.txt and "hands.txt", neither of them worked.

int FileParsing(vector<Card> & v, char * FileName) {
    ifstream ifs;
    ifs.open(FileName);
    if (!ifs.is_open()){
        cout << "file cannot be opened." << endl;
    } else {

So I use debugger to step through my main:

int main(int argc, char * argv[]){
    if (argc !=2 ){
        //ErrorMessage();
    } else {
         ...

Debugger tells me that my argc is 2, which is right, but how come every time the debugger just goes to 

cout << "file cannot be opened." << endl;

which means the argument just fails at reading it

ifstream ifs;
ifs.open(FileName);

Is there something I missed or I passed the argument in a wrong way?

p.s. The text file was read perfectly from cmd, so it's not the problem of code.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4003

Answers (1)

HoKy22
HoKy22

Reputation: 4217

Got the idea from @WhozCraig, while running your program in cmd, the text file is put under debug directory. But if you run it using debugger, you have to put the text file in the same directory with other cpp and h files.

Upvotes: 4

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