Question

This should be a fairly trivial problem. I’m trying to open an ofstream using a std::string (or std::wstring) and having problems getting this to work without a messy conversion.

std::string path = '.../file.txt';  ofstream output;  output.open(path); 

Ideally I don’t want to have to convert this by hand or involve c-style char pointers if there’s a nicer way of doing this?

Answer 1

In the path string, use two dots instead of three.

Also you may use ‘c_str()’ method on string to get the underlying C string.

output.open(path.c_str());