bool returns false, chdir() still works...

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ok so i have a function

bool fexists(const char *filename)
{
	std::fstream ifile(filename);
	return ifile;
}

which simply returns whether or not the file or path exists. But when i use it in this for loop,

	for(int n =0;n < i-1;n++)
	{
		startchar = directory_path.find('\\',startchar);
		endchar = directory_path.find('\\',startchar+1);
		totalchar = endchar - startchar;
		string path = directory_path.substr(startchar+1,totalchar);
		startchar = endchar;
		cout << path << "\n";
		if(fexists(path.c_str()) == false){cout << "folder does not exist";}
		chdir(path.c_str());
	}

where directory_path does entirely exist. The first folder is said to exist, and everything else is said not to exist. But chdir still works... so what exactly is happening here?

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Figured out, not posting code unless asked.

Basically I wrote another function to read the entire contents of the current directory and then searched it for the string given.