Thread: save file as

im having a simple problem in C. i am trying to prompt the user to enter a file name to save as. the only problem is i only know how to open an existing file and write onto that. i want to be able to take in info and save it as whatever the user wants it to be called. the same thing with loading. how do i do this?

Originally Posted by vidioholic

the only problem is i only know how to open an existing file and write onto that. i want to be able to take in info and save it as whatever the user wants it to be called. the same thing with loading. how do i do this?

You say that as though there is a difference. There is not.

im doing it like this:

printf("Enter a file name to save as:\t");
scanf("%s", &newfile);
fout = fopen("filename.txt" ,"w");
fclose (fout);

the problem is i dont know how to get the new file name to replace the filename i already have or to just create a new file all together named after whatever the user chooses.

And why didn't you even try fopen(newfile, "w")?

i think i figured it out:

Code:

    
printf("Enter a file name to save as:\t");
    scanf("%s", &filename);
    fout = fopen(filename, "w");
    fclose (fout);

this is the way to do it right?

oh lol well now i tried it. the problem was i thought there had to be something in quotes so i was even tring

Code:

 fopen("%s", filename,"w");

but obviously that was wrong. im still new at this whole thing as you can tell. thanx for your help though. ill post again some time soon most likely