[rt08]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a little program to read in a velocity profile from a file that has y and u values like so:

(
1 2
...
3 4
)

I want to do this using an IFstream and at the minute have:

string fileuIn=args.args()[6]+"/u_profile";
IFstream uDat(fileuIn);

Where args.args()[6] is an argument passed at the terminal that contains the path of the folder containing the file. I am passing the full path of this folder in quotes when running the program in the terminal, but I get the error:

"word::stripInvalid() called for word" then a print of the path and file name but without any "/" characters.

How do I overcome this error? I know that the file exists and the path and filename are correct, it seems that foam is removing the / characters, but obviously they are essential. I don't really want to move the files from there current location if I can help it and would prefer a solution from the coding side of the problem.

Thanks!

[jherb]

There is a special class in OpenFOAM to store file names and pathes, e. g.

Foam::fileName restartDir = runTime.path()/runTime.timeName();

As you can see, the operator / is used to concatenate (parts of the) path and filename.