read a file using Readfile()

[chandu004]

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

If you are dealing with say 3 different files

not 3 files. the file count is variable and dynamic. any way, take it easy. thank you.

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[chandu004]

hope your problems are solved.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

You mean there are different files, can be on any location and must be kept track of by your application? You could use an array of strings as a data member in your class? If you could explain your scenario more appropriately and explain your current approach, people over here can propose something better. Perhaps you should start a new thread.

It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

[chandu004]

actually this problem i faced in a projhect i executed ~2 yrs ago. i solved it by some other techniques, like using some function which gets the application path. i posted my query to enquire if there was any other straight forward method. any way leave it my friend, iam still failing to explain my problem correctly. i feel we are getting carried away. thank you once again.

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[rahuljin]

readfile() is still not solved.

[krmed]

I've read through this whole thread, and here's the problem... If you open a file with just the filename, the system looks for that file in the "current directory". The problem is that the current directory when you first start the app (from windows explorer) will be the directory containing the app. However, if you browse to a different folder (with CFileDialog for example), that changes the "current directory". To resolve this, you can find the directory that your app is in by using

GetModuleFileName

and then you can use

PathRemoveFileSpec

to remove the app name. Next use

PathAppend

to add the name of the file you want. Now you have the complete path to your file in your app directory, regardless of what the "current directory" is. Hope that helps.

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[rahuljin]

thanks. i try to write some code with readfile() for line by line read, it is working but the problem is that it does not print the very last character before the end of file ---

#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define BUFFER_SIZE 82

void main(int argc, TCHAR *argv[])
{
HANDLE hFile;
DWORD dwBytesRead = 0;
char ReadBuffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0}, ss[16] = {0};

printf("\\n");


hFile = CreateFileA("c:\\\\ip.txt",               // file to open
                   GENERIC\_READ,          // open for reading
                   FILE\_SHARE\_READ,       // share for reading
                   NULL,                  // default security
                   OPEN\_EXISTING,         // existing file only
                   FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_NORMAL, // normal file
                   NULL);                 // no attr. template

if (hFile == INVALID\_HANDLE\_VALUE) 
{ 
    printf("Could not open file (error %d)\\n", GetLastError());
    return; 
}

// Read one character less than the buffer size to save room for
// the terminating NULL character.

if( FALSE == ReadFile(hFile, ReadBuffer, BUFFER\_SIZE-2, &dwBytesRead, NULL) )
{
    printf("Could not read from file (error %d)\\n", GetLastError());
    CloseHandle(hFile);
    return;
}

ReadBuffer\[dwBytesRead+1\]='\\0';

int i ,j;
i = -1;
while(ReadBuffer\[i+1\] != '\\0')
{
j = -1;
do
{
    i++;
    j++;
    ss\[j\] = ReadBuffer\[i\];
}while((ReadBuffer\[i+1\] != '\\n')&&(ReadBuffer\[i+1\] != '\\0'));
ss\[j\] = '\\0';
printf("%s\\n", ss);
i++;
}

CloseHandle(hFile);
return;

}

the file, i want to read, has maximum of 16 characters in a line.

[krmed]

I think your problem is here:

do
{
i++;
j++;
ss[j] = ReadBuffer[i]; // Assume j now has a value of 15, so ss[15] = ReadBuffer[i]
}while((ReadBuffer[i+1] != '\n')&&(ReadBuffer[i+1] != '\0'));

ss[j] = '\0'; // j still has the value of 15, so you just replaced the value that was there with 0

You didn't say if the GetModuleFileName solved your other problem or not, but I'm guessing it did. Hope that helps.

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[Ozer Karaagac]

Hi, There is a flag for CFileDialog, named OFN_NOCHANGEDIR to keep current directory unchanged after file selection. It is used to form dwFlags which is 4th parameter of CFileDialog constructor. It can be used with flags member of OPENFILENAME structure for Win32 API, of course. However, you might also keep track of current directory by yourself using GetCurrentDirectory() and SetCurrentDirectory() functions.

[rahuljin]

i try to get the ip address from a file and then make socket and send info, i want to send same info to same ip twice so i put ip "127.0.0.1" twice in the text file, but it sends info only once. here is the code ----

#include <windows.h>
#include <winsock.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <lm.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <iostream>

#define NETWORK_ERROR -1
#define NETWORK_OK 0
short int c = 1;

void ReportError(int, const char *);
void printServ();
int sockpro();

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInst, LPSTR lpCmd, int nShow)
{
while(1)
{
printServ();
Sleep(1000);
}
return 0;
}

void ReportError(int errorCode, const char *whichFunc)
{
char errorMsg[92]; // Declare a buffer to hold
// the generated error message

ZeroMemory(errorMsg, 92); // Automatically NULL-terminate the string

// The following line copies the phrase, whichFunc string, and integer errorCode into the buffer
sprintf_s(errorMsg, "Call to %s returned error %d!", (char *)whichFunc, errorCode);

MessageBoxA(NULL, errorMsg, "socketIndication", MB_OK);
}

//to print the state of required process on the server
void printServ()
{
SC_HANDLE hSCM;
SERVICE_STATUS ss;

short int j, x;

x = 1;  //Number of services.

//Services to be checked.
wchar\_t\* prName\[\] = { 
                    
                    \_T("W3SVC"),	//World Wide Web Publishing service
                
                    };

    for(j=0; j<x ; j++)
    {
        //OpenSCManager establishes a connection to the service control manager on the specified computer
        //and opens the specified service control manager database and return value is a handle to the specified
        //service control manager database.
        hSCM = OpenSCManager
                (
                NULL,         //Name of the target computer.
                SERVICES\_ACTIVE\_DATABASE,               //Name of the service control manager database, optional.
                SC\_MANAGER\_CONNECT                      //Access right to the service control manager.
                );
		

        if (hSCM != NULL)
        {
            //OpenService opens an existing service and the return value is a handle to the service.
            SC\_HANDLE hService = OpenService