Thread: Best place to start (I/O question)...

I am inputting a file and outputting this file in new modified format. This i can do but was wondering if its possible to output the file and have the file name be identical to the input file name with addition of a number of my choosing or something..

So is it possible and where would be the best place to start - should i be looking at strings?

Still new at C..

Presumably, if you have the input filename stored somewhere (and you should, since it seems like you're getting the filename from the user?) then you can relatively easily do what you want to get an output filename.

take a look at the manpage of mkstemp()