[ghemical-devel] hello

Tommi Hassinen thassine at messi.uku.fi
Wed Nov 2 05:53:03 EST 2005


On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Jean Bréfort wrote:

>> the input file is created in elsewhere ; since the path ~/ is interpreted
>> as the user's home directory, then
>>
>>          str << "~/mpqc" << setfill('0') << setw(4) << ifile_name_counter++ << ".in" << ends;
>>                 ^^^
>> would make the files in user's home directory (haven't tried this though).
>
> This will not work. ~ is HOME only in the terminal. You must retrieve
> the HOME directory with getenv("HOME");

Thanks for warning! Then I guess we should modify the line this way:
 	str << getenv("HOME") << "/mpqc" << setfill('0') << setw(4) << ifile_name_counter++ << ".in" << ends;

Thanks,

 	Tommi


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