I am trying to make my c program more dynamic. It should opens a file with fopen(). Apparently, fopen does not read absolute paths. For example It can't read this path:
fopen("/Documents/projects/cs50_radio/broadcast/source/deadinside.mp3", "r")
returns NULL
;however,
fopen("deadinside.mp3", "r");
returns the expected pointer
I was wondering if there is a possible way to read such a path which might be independent from the current working directory in other cases ?
Answer
fopen() can take absolute paths as arguments. Are you working on a unix/linux based OS or on windows? Likely what is happening is you've got the path wrong. If you're on a mac, which it looks like you are, the correct path might be
~/Documents/projects/cs50_radio/broadcast/source/deadinside.mp3
But you can verify by cd'ing into the directory and typing pwd
If you're on windows, your path is definitely wrong, as windows would look more like this:
C:\Documents\projects\cs50_radio\broadcast\source\deadinside.mp3
No comments:
Post a Comment