My question is whether a file can be executed by its address (file path?).
For example, I want to execute the file that is in "C: \ Program Files \ Misc \ list.txt" and that the notepad with the file will open. As if I were opening it manually.
I searched for a lot of tutorials but most of them were about writing or reading the files, it's not what I need, I think. I am using Dev-C ++ (although I have no problems using Visual Studio 2017).
Greetings.
You can use the system ( ) feature.
For example to open a file called foo.txt that is on your desktop with the notebook you should write:
system("notepad.exe C:\Users\<Tu Usuario>\Desktop\foo.txt");
Still, depending on the user Jona in the post , the use of system () is not recommended since it is not sure and affects the performance of the program, so you can use CreateProcess () , for more information about this function I leave the link to the Microsoft documentation both Spanish how to english .