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[DrChill]

Did you copy and paste this file to your project, or make it yourself?

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[DrChill]

So you have a function and you need to cut it in half, and understand it?

[Bazzy]

no this is in our course book

Which book do you have? I can see quite an error on line 12

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[DrChill]

It may have compiled but it assigned the "y" to ch instead of comparing them.

[Zhuge]

Yeah, you probably made a typo when copying it in. And in any case the first step to simplifying the function would be to figure out what it does.

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[Bazzy]

You started from the wrong project template in VC++

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[Bazzy]

Start from an Empty Project

[guestgulkan]

This is shorter - but is it any less 'readable' ?

void menu_display(char* file)
{
    char path[FILENAME_MAX + 4] = {'\"'};
    getcwd(&path[1],FILENAME_MAX );      //get the current directory
    char ch = 0;
    while(ch != 'N')
    {
        cout << "Do you want to open " << file <<" for reading? (Y,N):";
        if(cin >> ch, ch == 'Y')
        {
            strcat( strcat (strcat(path,"\\Debug\\Maagar\\"), file),"\"") ;
            system(path);
            break;
        }
    }
}