how to access a text file while debugging with eclipse CDT

Question

I am writing this code to access a file in eclipse CDT

ifstream inFile;
ofstream outFile;
string next;

inFile.open("input.txt");
if (inFile.fail())
{
    cout << "\nCould not open input.txt";
    exit(1);

}

the problem is when I try to debug my app or run my app from inside eclipse it cannot find the input.txt file. When I run my app from the console it works fine and opens the file. I need to debug the app but can't because for some reason the eclipse ide cannot find the file.

Where should I put the file?

Answer 1

It could be an issue with relative paths. Is input.txt in the root directory of your project? Eclipse makes the top-level directory of the project the working directory. If you replace "input.txt" in your code with the fully qualified file name, that should also work.

Answer 2

Other than moving your source input file, you may consider changing the working directory for launching the application.

By setting "Run Configurations" > [The RUN] > "Arguments" Tab > "Working directory" from "${workspace_loc:[Project Name]}" to something else like "${workspace_loc:[Project Name]}/Release", which is the usual binary target directory for Eclipse would do.