I can''t figure put why, but this code won''t work. This is what I''m doing: string path = "webmaker/projects/"; string path2 = input2; string fullpath = path + path2; cout << "What would you like the name to be??" << endl << "Project name can only be up to 10 charactors!" << endl << ": "; cin.getline(input2, 10); // path1 cout << "Creating nesessary files and directories" << endl; CreateDirectory( _T( fullpath ), NULL ); CreateDirectory( _T( "webmaker/projects/tower" ), NULL ); ofstream file_02("main.data"); file_02.close(); ofstream file_03("description.txt"); file_03.close(); return(main()); This is the error i get: --------------------Configuration: webmaker - Win32 Debug-------------------- Compiling... webmaker.cpp C:\demonrealms\webmaker.cpp(64) : error C2664: ''CreateDirectoryA'' : cannot convert parameter 1 from ''class std::basic_string,class std::allocator >'' to ''const char *'' No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called Error executing cl.exe. webmaker.obj - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) Why won''t it let me add path + path2 and put it in the directory path? I need it to work.

it looks like you can''t pass a std::string into CreateDirectory. It wants a pointer to a char, i.e. a C style character array. You need to put fullpath.c_str() to convert the std::string to a C style array. that''s one of the clearer error messages that compilers spew out !

Thank you so much. It worked.