Thread: Creating one variable from two

  1. #1
    Peter_D3T
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    Question Creating one variable from two

    .. or whatever

    Im trying to create two filenames from what the user types in:

    {
    ...
    ofstream destination_blg;
    ofstream destination_bal;
    char filen[20];
    cout << "Enter Filename:\t"
    cin >> filen;
    ...
    /*
    Somehow a method to join filen and then ".blg" and ".bal" in herre.
    To produce (filen = bob) bob.blg and bob.bal and give destination_blg = "bob.blg" etc
    */
    ...
    ofstream.open(destination_blg);
    ofstream.open(destination_bal);
    ...
    }

    I have tried using:

    #define FFN(p, q) (p##q)
    with:
    destination_blg = FFN(filen, "blg");
    destination_bal = FFN(filen, "bal");

    but get the error "Unknown symbol filenbal", or "Expected ')'"

    Someone who could help me please.

    Thx.

    -D3T

  2. #2
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    just use
    Code:
    stcpy(filen2,filen);//we copy filen word for word
    strcat(filen,".blg");//change extension
    strcat(filen2,".bal");//change extension on 2

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    These are in iostream.h?
    or another such as conio?

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    Code:
    #include <string.h>

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    Not that this has anything to do with the actual question, but you could create 1 numeric variable from 2 using the binary operators.

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