Opening a binary file without it's name

[dreaming.kitsune]

Hi, I have to write code which will open selected binary file. I don't know how to open selected file without writing it's name in a code. Does anyone have any idea how this code shoul look like?

Part of a code responsible for selecting a file and opening it:

switch (event)
{
        case EVENT_COMMIT:
        status = FileSelectPopup ("", "*.cps", "", "Pick a file", VAL_LOAD_BUTTON, 0, 1, 1, 0,                path);
        if(status==1)

        {
            FILE *f; //(Opening  a binary file to read)
            f=fopen ("","rb+");
            if(!f)
            {
                perror("f");
                exit(1);
             }

[ebalci · Accepted solution]

Hi, 

I couldn't quite get what you mean by "without its name". 

You already have the full file path (which includes the file name) in your path variable.

You can pass it to the fopen function as the first parameter:

f=fopen (path,"rb+"); 

[dreaming.kitsune]

Thank you very much! Now it's working. 
I didn't know that "path" is variable for file's name.

[ebalci]

That's OK.

This is the main purpose of the FileSelectPopup. It lets you select a file and gives you its path.

Otherwise it would be useless...

( Note: Do not hesitate to give kudos if my reply helped you 😉 )