C++: Which is the best method of checking for file existence on windows platform [duplicate]

Answer 1

#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

bool FileExists(const TCHAR *fileName)
{
    DWORD       fileAttr;

    fileAttr = GetFileAttributes(fileName);
    if (0xFFFFFFFF == fileAttr && GetLastError()==ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
        return false;
    return true;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{


    if ( FileExists("testtt.txt"))
    {
      cout << "File exists \n";
    }
    else
    {
        cout << "File does not exist \n";

    }


  return 0;
}