Thread: Reading file specified by user

In a program I'm writing I need to prompt the user to input the name of a file to read from.

With all the examples I have found, the file name is pre-defined.

Example:

FILE *in;
in = fopen("file.txt", "r");

I need to replace "file.txt" with a string defined by the user, how could I do this?
Help is appreciated.

Get the string from the keyboard in the usual way with scanf() then substitue your string variable for the literal name in fopen().

As in fopen(MyStrVar,"r");

That solved my problem. Thanks!