c++: Using a loop to open files - c++

Question

I have a vector of strings of 2 folder names vector <myClass> vec_fileNames; which I filled by reading from a fileNames.txt which contains 2 lines:
First
Second
ifstream inFile("c:/file names.txt");
if(!inFile)
{
cout << "File Not Found!\n";
inFile.close();
}
else
{
string line;
myClass class;
while (getline(inFile, line))
{
class.setFileName(line);
vec_fileNames.push_back(class);
}
So, at this point my vec_fileName[0].getFileName = First and vec_fileName[1].getFileName = second
Now I wanted to open files inside the folders who's names are in the vector in a loop so I did this:
for(int i = 0; i < vec_fileNames.size(); i++)
{
string fileName = vec_fileNames[i].getFileName();
ifstream inFile("C:/Program Folder\\" + fileName + "goalFile.txt");
if(!inFile)
{
cout << "File Not Found!\n";
inFile.close();
}
else
{
while (getline(inFile, line))
{
//do something
}
}
So far everything is good except for the file not being opened. Is this even something that can be done in c++ or is there an error in the way I'm opening the file?

Answer 1

I created the same folder structure as you have:
C:\
Program Folder
First
goalFile.txt
Second
goalFile.txt
And ran the following simple code. Node that I don't store the filenames in a class, but directly into a vector.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std; // I'm no fan of this, but you obviously used it.
void loadFileNames(vector<string>& vec_fileNames)
{
ifstream inFile("c:\\file names.txt");
if(!inFile.is_open())
{
cout << "File Not Found!\n";
return;
// inFile.close(); -- no need to close, it is not open!
}
else
{
string line;
while (getline(inFile, line))
{
cout << line << endl;
vec_fileNames.push_back(line);
}
}
}
void openFiles(vector<string>& vec_fileNames)
{
for(int i = 0; i < vec_fileNames.size(); i++)
{
string fileName = vec_fileNames[i];
string path("C:\\Program Folder\\" + fileName + "\\goalFile.txt");
ifstream inFile(path.c_str());
if(!inFile.is_open())
{
cout << "File" << vec_fileNames[i] << "Not Found!" << endl;
}
else
{
cout << "opened file in folder " << vec_fileNames[i] << endl << endl;
string line;
while (getline(inFile, line))
{
cout << line << endl;
}
cout << endl;
}
}
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
vector<string> fileNames;
loadFileNames(fileNames);
openFiles(fileNames);
return 0;
}
That works, and produces the output:
First
Second
opened file in folder First
First goal file 1
First goal file 2
opened file in folder Second
Second goalfile 1
Second goalfile 2
The lines First goal file 1, etc. are the contents of the two files.