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Bbvarghe
Bbvarghe

Reputation: 265

Putting spaces in file directory string

I am new to file I/O, and I am writing a program in C to read a file that I already created. The examples in the book I have do not use literals with spaces. I was wondering if:

#define kErrorLog      "/Dropbox/Dev/Learn%20C%20on%20Mac/Error%20Log"

would give me the appropriate path that corresponds to user/dropbox/dev/Learn C on Mac/Error Log.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 66

Answers (2)

rici
rici

Reputation: 241701

No, you should just use spaces:

#define kErrorLog      "/Dropbox/Dev/Learn C on Mac/Error Log"

The %20 escape is interpreted by web servers. Filenames are just character strings.

Upvotes: 2

icktoofay
icktoofay

Reputation: 129011

No; the file name need not be URL-encoded like that. You can include spaces normally:

#define kErrorLog      "/Dropbox/Dev/Learn C on Mac/Error Log"

In general, there is no need to escape file names in C. If you're putting a file name directly in your code, you might need to escape problematic characters inside a string literal (for example, backslashes), but once you have it in a string, no modifications need to be made to that string to use it as a file name.

Upvotes: 1

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