fstream not opening file

[cobowitz]

my file is sitting in the netbeans resources folder(which by the way is already annoying to add into, a right click and then add existing item option...) and I constantly(always) get the error message from this.

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

void openFile(){
    fstream iFile("employee_data_in1.txt",fstream::in);
    
    if(!iFile){
        cout << "\n\tError: iFile not found at openFile()\n";
    }else
        cout << "\n\tiFile opened\n";
    
}

That's everything I included, and then the function itself, the only thing I didn't put was the function prototype, since it shouldn't effect this at all.

[cobowitz]

infact, I wanted it to do fstream::in | fstream::out
But tried settling for the previous hoping it would work.

[Texan40]

You'll need to provide the full path to the file if it is not residing in the working directory for the executable. Also it's not fstream::in but ios_base::in.