[RESOLVED] using a string to open a file for reading

[Gulyman]

I'm making a program that does accounting. It's a school project that is self directed since I'm the only one in the class. I'm teaching myself.

In the program I store each persons data in a txt file with their username as the name of the file. When they enter the username I add it to a string and add .txt on the end. Poof, the file path to the file I need to read data from is created. I do this

     ifstream inData;
     inData.open(finalPath);

finalPath is the string with the file path.

The compiler doesn't like this. Since a string won't work, how else can I do this?

[Philip Nicoletti]

open() takes a const char * variable ... assuming that finalPath is
a std::string, call the .c_str() member function ...

inData.open(finalPath.c_str());

[Gulyman]

Thank you.