File input / strings help

[seanman13579]

Could use some help i am having some hard time figuring this out. What i need to do is read in a file and then based on its file extension decide what to do i.e. ".cpp" or ".html"
I though i could just read in the file name then the extension but was not allowed. lol So any help would be appricated here is my code so far for the file input.
Im pretty sure this could be done with strings?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
char* filename;
...
int main ()
{
    ...
    
    cout <<"Please enter the name of the file" << endl; 
	filename=new char;
	cin >> filename;

...
}

[whiteflags]

Yes you can do it with a string, call string::compare to do it.

[Elysia]

Your code is a ticking time bomb, plus it's unnecessary. You don't seem to understand dynamic memory fully. I would just recommend you make a std::string, then use std::getline.

[seanman13579]

Yes Elysia i realize this that was something i just threw together real fast a rough draft if you will. lol here is what it would look like

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
     string str, tmp;
  std::string filename;


    cout <<"Please enter the name of the file" << endl; 
	cin >> filename;

	
	ifstream myfile(filename.c_str());
	while(getline(myfile, tmp))
	{
	str += tmp;
    }
  
  

return 0;
}

Also thanks whiteflag the compare worked perfectly.