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    please explain it to me as i am very new to c++.

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    Which part do you mean? Well for my string thing say they entered the first part of "example.txt" and the input typed was example then you would use:
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    stringx += ".txt
    So basically you add teh file extension to the end.

    And for progbman:

    Code:
    ofstream a_file ( stringx.c_str() );
    Last edited by bumfluff; 04-28-2006 at 02:37 PM.

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    ive just tryed both but i just cant get them to work.

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    Maybe you should post your code.

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    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <iomanip>
    #include <string>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        string a;
        string b;
        string str;
        string x;
        
        cout<<"Please verify what the file name should be: ";
        cin>>x;
        cin.ignore(); 
        ofstream a_file ( string x.c_str()ios::app);
        cout<<"Please input some text.\n";
        cout<<">";
        getline(cin,a);
        cin.ignore();
        a_file<< a;
        a_file.close();
        ifstream b_file("str.txt");
        cout<<"File opened successfully.\n";
        cout<<"Reading Data from File."<<"\n";
    	cout<<setfill('-')<<setw(80)<<"-"<<endl;
    	b_file.close();
        cin.get();
    }

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    What are you trying to do as there isn't really any point to that code.

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    No probs it got it sorted

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    Now im just having probs getting it to read the file.Any ideas?

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    Have you made sure that the file is opne...checkout the tutorial and are you usiong << instead of >>

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    1."Have you made sure the file is open".
    A. Yes.

    2."are you using << instead of >>".
    A. I am using >> it just closes as soon as it gets to that point in the prog.

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    I ave made some progress but as soon as it gets to whitespace it stops and will only print the first word. It should be printing "This is a test file" but its just printing "This" i am using getline, so whats up?

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    + i cant now append to the end of the text if the user defines the name of the file, i just get an error message.

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    post any new code up

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    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <iomanip>
    #include <string>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        cout<<"Please enter a filename: ";
        getline(cin,x);
        ofstream a_file (x.c_str());
        cout<<"Please input some text.\n";
        cout<<">";
        getline(cin,a);
        cin.ignore();
        a_file<< a;
        a_file.close();
        ifstream b_file( x.c_str());
        cout<<"File opened successfully.\n";
        cout<<"Reading Data from File."<<"\n";
    	cout<<setfill('-')<<setw(80)<<"-"<<endl;
        getline(cin, b);
    	cin.ignore();
    	b_file>> b;
    	cout<< b <<"\n";
    	b_file.close();
        cin.get();
    }

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    I made a few changes to it and it works now so no worrys.Thanx though.

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