How do I create directories in an plattform independent way? Is _mkdir the solution? I think that fopen followed by a fclose will create a file in a plattform independent way but how do i remove it? I get confused when reading about this in the books I''ve looked in...

quote:Original post by peer
How do I create directories in an plattform independent way?
Is _mkdir the solution?

Not quite. There''s no way of doing this mandated by the C++ Standard, but mkdir() (no underscore) is part of the POSIX.1-1988 Standard, which means you should be able to get mkdir() implementations on several platforms. Under Windows, you should look for direct.h for directory manipulation functions, under *nix systems, look for sys/types.h and sys.stat.h.

quote:
I think that fopen followed by a fclose will create a
file in a plattform independent way but how do i remove
it?

There is a function called remove() in cstdlib for that purpose.

You need to be careful with notions of `platform independent''. Its not really possible to write something that is truly platform independent. Rather, you write code which is multi-platform dependent. That is, you have to make assumptions about what you are targeting else you cannot know what will be present or what will be missing. To do that, decide which platforms you wish to target and then write code (i.e. compile and test) for those platforms simultaneously. You should end up with a single code base that will compile and work across those platforms, and will probably need less work to port to a new platform than if you only target a single platform.

quote:Original post by Mayrel
I haven''t decided which platform to run this on, yet I know with certainty that it will run on any conforming freestanding implementation, with no porting required.

However, you don''t know with all certainty that you have an implementation which conforms in the respects that concern you until you take a look at what you have (or use knowledge you''ve already attained). At that point, you are targeting a specific platform. It''s all very well saying `my code is 100% ISO compliant'', but that won''t get you very far if your compiler can''t handle it. The problem increases as you move beyond idiotic examples to real-world code that has to do something useful, particularly as the C++ Standard does not describe all those things which you would generally want to do in any useful program, like putting up a GUI, connecting to a database, communicating with other processes, etc.

You guys arwe making way harder then it should be. Just insert the following code:

//add this to your include#include <tchar.h>#include <fstream>#include <iostream>

And then insert this in your int main() function

CreateDirectory( _T( "Directory name" ), NULL);ofstream datafile001("test.txt");datafile001 << "Text here" << endl<< "more text here" << endl;datafile001.close();

But lets say u want to make a person make a directory?

char ipt1[80];string file = ipt1;cout << "Directory name: ";cin.getline(ipt1, 80);CreateDirectory( _T( file.c_str() ), NULL);

and there you have it.

How comes you think the code above would be platform independent?

Platform independent? Use import java.io.*;
Then look at File class. It''s mkdir(); or public boolean mkdirs();
Hey it''s not a C, but it would work.