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Learning C++. Writing File To Desktop. No Where to be Found

I am learning C++ and trying to write a program to create a text file on my desktop and write to it.

For some reason, the file is no where to be found on my desktop.

Here is my code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;


int main () {

    ofstream myfile;
    myfile.open ("C:\\Users\\MyName\\Desktop\\test.txt");
    myfile << "Writing this to a file.\n";
    myfile.close();
    return 0;

}

I am using Eclipse to build and compile my code. Is this the reason it's not writing a file to my desktop?

Solution

  • Worked for me too. I compiled and ran this on ubuntu. Try to run this from command line in Windows and check whether it works then or not.