Test to see if a file exists

[ResidentBiscuit]

I'm writing a program that takes two addresses, one of a source file and one of a destination to copy the file to. I'm wanting a way to test to see if the source even exists. As far as I know, if I use any fstream functions to read a file, it'll just create a new file if it doesnt exist. That's not what I'm wanting here. Any suggestions?

[o3hC5Di1]

Hi there,

Can't give you an immediate answer, but here's some links to topics that cover the subject with plenty of suggestions:

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/1796/
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/71414/
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/23392/

Hope that helps.

All the best,
NwN

[ResidentBiscuit]

Ah yes thank you! This gives me a few different ideas to try this out.

[naraku9333]

Try

int main()
{
	fstream f("test_file.txt");
	if(!f)
	{
        cout << "Error: ";
        return 1;
    }

    cout << "Success";
   return 0;
}

fstream doesn't create the file automatically.