[Resolved] Can someone help me with this line of code?

[Slyke]

TCHAR filebuf[256];

_tprintf(_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf);

I wish to convert this code into a char type or a char(That is not printed onto the screen).

So basically:

Somechar=filebuf;

I've tried every way my brain can think of. I either get compiler errors, or i get weird HEX numbers on the screen (I'd say they are the memory addresses of the filebuf pointer). However, I can't get it working .

I'm trying to find out the directory that the program is in when it's running (App.Path in VB terms), then writing it into a file. This code is the only thing stopping me. The path comes up on the screen. But I can't convert into another data type from here.

[hellowonn]

It already is in char type.
What are you using to write to file? the fstream header? Or fopen//fwrite//fclose ?

[Slyke]

I believe it's ofstream.

Here's basically my code:

ofstream myfile (destFile);
int lineCount;
myfile << "";
lineCount=0;
string newstr;

if (myfile.is_open())
	{
		lineCount++;
		myfile << newstr << endl;
		cout << "Line " << setw(4) << lineCount << ": " << newstr << endl;
	}
	else cout << "Unable to open file";
	}
		if (myfile.is_open())
	{
		myfile.close();
	}
}

Basically, I need the exe path to go into a variable, into a parameter though a function, then into into newstr. The parameter requires it to be of type char *, but I need it in a char * variable first.
Or in code terms:

char *file_path;
*file_path = (_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf);

So that it puts the path into the string instead of printing to the screen.

I get the following error when trying to do that code:

error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'TCHAR *' to 'char' 

If you require the full code I will post it up, but I think I've answered your questions .

[hellowonn]

When I tried to compile some code with the line

*file_path = (_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf);

it said _T() wasn't recognized. What headers are you including? It would just be better to post your entire code.

But here's how I'd do it.

char cFile[512];
DWORD dwFile;
GetModuleFileName(NULL,cFile,dwFile);
printf("Path: %s\n",cFile);

That will retrieve the full path of the current exe, including the filename.
E.G. D:\apps\file.exe

It'd be easy to write a function to retrieve just the directory from a full file path.

[Slyke]

Okay, here it is!

Yep, I'm willing to try any way to get the path name into type char*. It needs to be passed into the doFiles function (Single \ stop it from working, so all directories need to have \\ separating the folders).

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
#include <stdio.h>  
#include <stdlib.h>  
#include <tchar.h>  
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

#define COUNTOF(x)  ( sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]) )

void doFiles(char sourceFile[], char destFile[], char findWhat[], char replaceWith[]);
string replaceString(string &stringToSearch, const string findWhat, string replaceWith);
string StringToLower(string strToConvert);
BOOL get_module_directory(TCHAR *obuf, size_t osize);
char WcharToString(TCHAR* pTchar);
char *TCHARTochar(TCHAR *theTCHAR);


int main()
{
	TCHAR filebuf[256];
	char *file_path;
    
	if ( get_module_directory(filebuf, COUNTOF(filebuf)) )
	{
		//Attempts...
		//file_path << filebuf;
		//cout << (_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf) << endl;
		//sprintf(file_path, "Directory = {%s}\n", filebuf);
		//_tprintf(_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf); 
		//file_path = (_T("Directory = {%s}\n"), filebuf);
		//sprintf(file_path, "%s", filebuf);
		cout << TCHARTochar((_T("%s"), filebuf)) << endl;


		// return EXIT_SUCCESS;
	}
	else
	{
		_tprintf(_T("ERROR: cannot get directory\n") );
		return 0;
	}

	// Template file, Destination File (Will be over-written), Find what, Replace With. Converts to lCase.
	doFiles ("c:\\test_file.txt", "c:\\tmp.txt", "C:\\", "F:\\");

	cout << endl << endl << endl << endl << "Executing the webserver..." << endl;

	// Execute Apache Code Needed

	system("pause");

	return 0;

}


string replaceString(string &stringToSearch, const string findWhat, string replaceWith)
{
	size_t j;

	for ( ; (j = stringToSearch.find( findWhat )) != string::npos ; ) 
	{
		stringToSearch.replace( j, findWhat.length(), replaceWith );
	}

	return stringToSearch;
}


void doFiles(char sourceFile[], char destFile[], char findWhat[], char replaceWith[])

{
	
	char str[65535];
	string newstr;
	int lineCount;

	ofstream myfile (destFile);
	myfile << "";
	lineCount=0;

	cout << "Opening File: " << sourceFile << endl;
	cout << "Writing File: " << destFile << endl << endl;
	cout << "Replacing All Instances Of: " << endl << findWhat << endl << endl;
	cout << "With: " << endl << replaceWith << endl << endl;
	cout << "Begining Write: "<< endl << endl << endl;

	fstream file_op(sourceFile,ios::in);
	while(!file_op.eof())
	{
	file_op.getline(str,65535);

		//REPLACE STR HERE
	newstr = replaceString(StringToLower(str),StringToLower(findWhat),StringToLower(replaceWith)).c_str();

	if (myfile.is_open())
	{
		lineCount++;
		myfile << newstr << endl;
		cout << "Line " << setw(4) << lineCount << ": " << newstr << endl;
	}
	else cout << "Unable to open file";
	}
		if (myfile.is_open())
	{
		myfile.close();
	}
	file_op.close();
	cout << endl;

}


string StringToLower(string strToConvert)
{
   for(unsigned int i=0;i<strToConvert.length();i++)
   {
      strToConvert[i] = tolower(strToConvert[i]);
   }
   return strToConvert;
}


BOOL get_module_directory(TCHAR *obuf, size_t osize)  
{  
     if ( ! GetModuleFileName(0, obuf, osize) )  
     {  
         *obuf = '\0';// insure it's NUL terminated  
         return FALSE;  
     }  
    
     // run through looking for the *last* slash in this path.  
     // if we find it, NUL it out to truncate the following  
     // filename part.  
    
     TCHAR*lastslash = 0;
    
     for ( ; *obuf; obuf ++)  
     {  
         if ( *obuf == '\\' || *obuf == '/' )  
             lastslash = obuf;  
     }  
    
     if ( lastslash ) *lastslash = '\0';  
    
     return TRUE;  
}


// My Futile attempt to convert TCHAR to CHAR
char *TCHARTochar(TCHAR *theTCHAR)
{
	char theResult[sizeof(filebuf)];
	int i;

	for (i= 0; i < sizeof(filebuf); i++)
	{
	
		theResult[i] = theTCHAR[i];
	}


	// EDIT: Fixed it.
	if (theResult[sizeof(filebuf)] != '\0')
	{
		theResult[sizeof(filebuf)+1] << '\0';
	}

	return theResult;

}

I tell you what, this is quite a learning curve.

[Slyke]

Also I get this error when trying to run your code:

Error    1    error C2664: 'GetModuleFileNameW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char [512]' to 'LPWCH' 

[Slyke]

Actually, forget it all!

I've figured it out.

I'm just having troubles with the escape character now.

char *TCHARTocharPath(TCHAR *theTCHAR)
{
	int theSize = (sizeof(filebuf));
	int i;
	int lastSlash;

	lastSlash=0;
	*theResult='\0';

	for (i= 0; i <= theSize-1; i++)
	{
	
		theResult[i] = Chr(theTCHAR[i]);

		if (theTCHAR[i]=='\0' || Chr(theTCHAR[i])=='\0')
		{
			break;
		}
	}

	for (i= 0; i <= theSize-1; i++)
	{
		if (theResult[i]=='\\')
		{
			theResult[i]=92;
			i++;
			theResult[i]=92;
			i++;
			theSize+=2;
		}

		if (theTCHAR[i]==92)
		{
			lastSlash=i;
		}
	}
	
	if (sizeof(theResult)+1 > lastSlash)
	{
		theResult[lastSlash]='\0';
	}

	if (theResult[theSize] != '\0')
	{
		theResult[theSize+1] << '\0';
	}

	//cout << theResult;
	
	return theResult;

}

char Chr(int value)
{
char a;
a = value;
return a;
}

I want to make it so that every time there's a \ in theResult, I want another 1 inserted (Before or after doesn't matter) as long as their are 2 of them.

For some reason I can't get this to work! Have tried just using ascii and putting it in with '\'. Either way when i go to display this:

char *file_path;
file_path=TCHARTocharPath(filebuf);
cout << file_path << endl;

It comes up blank =S. Maybe there's a better way? It has to be left as a char type however.

[Slyke]

Thanks for everyone's help =).

I'll post source code if someone asks.