MAC OS X path

[Abder-Rahman Ali]

For example, when I'm on a Windows machine, I write the following:

File f= new File("C:\\SomeFile.doc");

How can I write the file path at MAC OS X?

Thanks.

[Bear Bibeault]

That greatly depends upon where the file is in the file system.

So, where is it?

[Abder-Rahman Ali]

Bear Bibeault wrote:That greatly depends upon where the file is in the file system.

So, where is it?

On the Desktop

[Bear Bibeault]

The file path to a file named somefile.txt on the user's Desktop, assuming the user is named bear would be:

/Users/bear/Desktop/somefile.txt

[Bear Bibeault]

And remember, this isn't Windows. Case counts!

[Abder-Rahman Ali]

Bear Bibeault wrote:And remember, this isn't Windows. Case counts!

Thank you very much.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Also note that Windows is perfectly happy with forward slashes:

File f= new File("C:/SomeFile.doc");

works just fine.

[Bill Tubbs]

This is helpful thanks. I am also trying to read a file from a Mac OS X filesystem using C++.

I get the user to select the file location using the NSOpenPanel method and convert the URL to a const char inputFilename which looks something like this:

file://localhost/Users/.../DataFile.txt

But when I try to open the file with

ifstream inFile ( inputFilename );

inFile.is_open() returns an error.

Do I need to manipulate this path before using it in ifstream?

[Bear Bibeault]

Why the "file://localhost" prefix?

[Bill Tubbs]

I don't know. I didn't add it. That's what NSOpenPanel returned:

NSOpenPanel* panel = [NSOpenPanel openPanel];
 [panel beginWithCompletionHandler:^(NSInteger result){
        if (result == NSFileHandlingPanelOKButton) {
            NSURL*  fileURL = [[panel URLs] objectAtIndex:0];

Thanks.

[Bill Tubbs]

Thanks Bear Bibeault.

I think I've found the problem. I was using the wrong class method [fileURL absoluteString].

I should be using path. "Returns the path of a URL conforming to RFC 1808."

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3057086/how-to-chop-off-file-from-nsurl

Sorry to those who are not familiar with ObjectiveC.

Thanks!

[Pat Farrell]

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Also note that Windows is perfectly happy with forward slashes:
File f= new File("C:/SomeFile.doc");

But that is because the JVM handles both backwards and forward slashes. Its a runtime thing.

[Pat Farrell]

Bill Tubbs wrote:This is helpful thanks. I am also trying to read a file from a Mac OS X filesystem using C++.

From your code samples, it looks to me as if you are using Objective C. That is a separate language, not the same as C++.

Being specific about what you are doing and which tools you are using makes it easier for us to help you.