Stream Location Input

[knguyen2525]

Hello. I was just wondering, is there anyway that you can have youre user input the location of a file when trying to using a stream?

Ex of what I want to do:

int main()
{
ifstream instream;
string file_location;

cout << "Enter in file location: " << endl;
cin >> file_location;

instream.open(file_location);



So i want them to input the file location but the program won't compile.

[webJose]

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[Duthomhas]

int main()
{
  ifstream instream;
  string file_location;

  cout << "Enter in file location: " << endl;
  getline(cin,file_location);

  instream.open(file_location.c_str());