Opening a file in c++ by using a string array of adress

Question

Hello guYz plz help me out in making it possible to open the files by the adress provided in an array of strings.........

a way to open file is as given below... ifstream infile; infile.open("d:\aslam.txt");

but how can i open file providing an array of string as an adress of file.....

like this infile.open(arr[i]); (but its not working) plz help me.........

Answer 1

If you are asking about this:

string a[10];
a[0] = "somefile.txt";
infile.open( a[0] );

then it won't work because the open() function is expecting a const char * - you want:

infile.open( a[0].c_str() );

Note that this is nothing particularly to do with arrays.