file handling in c++

Question

sir i have saved my file in D derive and i referenced it in code but after compilation following error has been occured. file could not open. code is given below.

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    char name[100];// used to read name of employee from file
    char sal [100];// used to read name of employee from file
    char dep[100];// used to read name of employee from file
    ifstream inFile;
    char inputFileName[]="D:\naveed/ali.txt";
    inFile.open(inputFileName);
    //checking the file is opened or not
    if(!inFile){
        cout<<"cannot open input file"<<"\t"<<inputFileName;
        exit(1);
    }
    while(!inFile.eof()){
        inFile>>name>>sal>>dep;
        cout<<name<<"\t"<<sal<<"\t"<<dep;
    }
    inFile.close();
}

Answer 1

You cannot use   D:\naveed/ali.txt    as a filename.  In a string   \n   is a linefeed.  Any time you use a   \   in a string you need to escape it with another backslash.  So the filename should be  D:\\naveed\\ali.txt