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Witchie NL - Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:11 pm
Post subject: Store files in a certain dir

I was wondering if you can make a mervbot plugin store files in a certain directory.
The way to output data to a textfile i use now is with Streams like:

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ofstream file("database.dat", ios::app);
if (file)
{
file << "blabla:" << a_string.msg << endl;
tell(makeEcho("Database Saved.."));
}
else
{tell(makeEcho("Error Saving Database.."));}
file.close();

This creates-edits a file in the same dir as the plugin.
But i need it to save in another directory. Like C:/MERVBot/Database instead of C:/MERVBot
Can this be done with streamÂ´s or do i need to use another way?
If so how do you do this?

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:10 pm
Post subject: Re: Store files in a certain dir

[code]ofstream file("c:\\mervbot\\database\\database.dat", ios::app);[/quote]
The double slashes is just escaping the one slash.

Witchie NL - Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:04 am
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now i could have found out about that myself.
Ima do that. thanks.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:49 am
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Of course, to save relative to the MERVBot directory, you'd want to do "database\\database.dat". But I'm sure you could have found that our yourself too.

Witchie NL - Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:47 pm
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ohyeah and the directory needs to be already created.
Else it will give an error and crate a blank file in the same folder as the plugin. Thanks!