FILE problem

[Raghavan]

Hi
in this statement
FILE *f1;
f1=fopen("123456789.txt","w");

here the pgm should open the named file if it exists or should create a new one right, but it just creates a file with only 8 characters in its name like 12345678.txt. why is it so. also i get an error if i try to open a file whose name is more than 8 chars. i want file with length of name to be opened.what to do

[Adak]

So your compiler is only supporting DOS (8.3) filenames. If you want longer filenames, you need to get a compiler that supports that - for Windows or Leopard or Linux, or BSD, etc.

[Elysia]

http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Integr...nt_Environment

[Doron Moraz]

Hi
in this statement
FILE *f1;
f1=fopen("123456789.txt","w");
here the pgm should open the named file if it exists or should create a new one right

Using "w" will not only open the file if it already exist.
It will open the file and truncate the file to zero length.
If you are aware of that, that's fine, if you want to keep the file existing data, use "a" instead.

Anyway, as mentioned before you might using a compiler that only support DOS 8.3 filenames. However if the compiler is running in a MS-DOS FAT file system environment upgrading the compiler will not allow you to use longer filenames.


Regards
Doron Moraz