Writing to a file - wrong directory

[aniak17]

I have written this program:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  ofstream SaveFile("testing.txt");
  SaveFile << "Hello World, testing file writing";
  SaveFile.close();

  cout << "Press ENTER to exit..." << endl;
  getchar();
  return 0;
}

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It works fine, except the new file that is written to ("testing.txt") is created in my Dev-C++ directory (where I installed the actual Dev-C++ application) - instead in my current working directory (where the program's .exe file is).

This is a huge problem for me, as I have wrtten a much larger program which does exactly the same thing.

Is there a setting in Dev-C++ that I need to change?

Please help - this is very important to me.

CHEERS - ANIA

[Raphael Saint-Pierre]

you could get the command line which was used to launched your program ; there's the filename and directory in it : it is the first argument of your main function ; you just have to declare

int main( int argc, char * argv[] )

and then locate the position of the last '\' in argv[0] ; all the stuff before it is your path.

Petit_PimoOosE