c++ imread filepath in windows

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Greetings,

I've tried to google this to no avail. Please help me understand what is wrong with this file path:

Mat lena = imread("C:\\Users\dasboomer\Desktop\Building-Computer-Vision-Projects-with-OpenCV4-and-CPlusPlus-master\Chapter03/lena.jpg");

I've tried changing:

Thank you for your assistance

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berak
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change ALL occurences of \to either \\ or / (not only the last)

(it's not even an opencv specific problem, you'll have to do this, whenever you encounter a file path in c++ on win)

Thank you for your time. I tried double backslash or forward and double forward slashes to no avail.

DasBoomer ( 2020-07-26 12:53:37 -0600 )edit

You are correct, it turns out the tutorial code was faulty. My my, where has packt gone?

DasBoomer ( 2020-07-26 13:03:55 -0600 )edit

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