File open error

[fahmankhan75]

I have an input file named "hello.tx." Meanwhile, I also have the input file opened. Everytime I compile and run th program I seem to get to get "

 file not opened 

on my dos screen. I did poshis question earlier too, but I'm not being able to understand whats causing this...

  void open_file (ifstream &fin)
{
	cout<<"Input File: Hello.txt";
	fin.open("Hello.txt");
		if(!fin)
		{
			cout<<"file not opened";
		}
}

[mutexe]

Is open() failing because you are trying to open a file that's alreay opened?

[fahmankhan75]

Well when I have the input file opened on my console or either not opened it still says the same thing

[ccdare]

it works fine in my compiler. Qt 5.2.1
I guess maybe it's because the file name inconsistence? hello and Hello.

[fahmankhan75]

ahh I don't know :( For some apparent reason, since I have download visual studio on my laptop nothing seems to be working perfectly or running. I'm assuming something is up with my complier...thank you for your resonse though

[giblit]

Maybe because the file is named "hello.tx" and you are trying to open "Hello.txt" file names are case sensitive.

Also you could try explictly calling [s]!fin.isOpen(); !fin.is_open();[/s] Actually ignore the second half because if it didn't open successfully it would put a fail bit for the operator!.

[nvrmnd]

how did you call the function ?

works fine on mine

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

void open_file( std::ifstream& file )
{
    std::cout << "Input file: Hello.txt\n";
    file.open( "Hello.txt" );
    file ?
        std::cout << "File open" : std::cout << "File not open";
}

int main()
{
    std::ifstream f;
    open_file( f );
}