c programming

[shashidhar]

in c or c++ whats the API to copy files from one location to another..... is there any?

 

[haraakiri]

Generally you need to make use of platform specific APIs. I personally use portable boost.filesystem( c++ )

 

[vishalrao]

Cross platform portable coding would be to use the standard "stdio.h" or <cstdio> include headers then use the following APIs to copy a file from source to target:

pseudocode:

source = fopen(source_file_name, binary_mode);
target = fopen(target_file_name, binary_mode);
while ( (int bytes_read = fread(source, bytes)) > 0)
{
  if ( (int bytes_written = fwrite(target, bytes)) <= 0)
  {
    return error_code;
  }
}
return success_code;

Should work everywhere, windows, linux, mac, etc...