Sequential O.F. naming at runtime

**rhumston** · 10-21-2002

I apologize in advance if this is an old question, but I have not been able to uncover it in my searches.

I have written a program which simulates plant population dynamics in a spatial grid. I would like it to output annual population statistics; however, I would like the program to be felxible enough to determine the output filenames at run time by concatenating:
a) a user-defined base string (e.g. "year")
b) the integer value of time from the program's internal clock (e.g. 1)
c) a predefined string representing the appropriate output file extension (e.g. ".txt")

In this example the resulting filename, determined during the run, would be "year1.txt".

I can not figure out how to convert the value of the integer variable "Time" into a string variable so that I can easily combine it with the other string variables. Text and web searches have come up blank. I hope someone can help me out, and thank you in advance for your advice!

**Eibro** · 10-21-2002

Here's an example of how you could do it:

PHP Code:


#include <sstream>

#include <iostream>

//#include <string>

#include <ctime>





int main()

{

    using namespace std;



    stringstream filename;

    time_t rawTime = time(NULL);

    tm *currentTime = localtime(&rawTime);



    filename << "year" << currentTime->tm_year + 1900 << ".txt";

    // filename now containts "year2002.txt"



    cout << filename.str().c_str();

    // output it

    return 0;

};

**pianorain** · 10-21-2002

Code:

//make sure to include
#include <stdlib.h>

//let time be your integer amount for filename

char tempbuf[6];
string yearNum;

_itoa(time,tempbuf,10);
yearNum = tempbuf;

Then all you have to do is concatenate the rest of your filename together.

**quagsire** · 10-21-2002

Using sprintf makes formatting of the filename a lot easier :

Code:

int year = 2002;
char filename[256];
sprintf(filename, "%4d.txt", year);

**rhumston** · 10-22-2002

You folks rock. Thanks for all the suggestions; I had seen itoa but could not quite figure out the correct usage. The other options look great as well (is sprintf in the std library?)

Thanks so much for your help! I'll post a reply to let you know what worked for me.

***kermi3*** · 10-22-2002

I think this was asked yesterday....some classes homework? hehe

**rhumston** · 10-22-2002

I wish I could take a class in this... I'm just an ecologist trying to pick up enough C++ programming to get what I need done.

I couldn't find an instance of this asked before, but apparently I didn't look hard enough; sorry to clutter the board with a repeat question.

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