Thread: Saving

Hi,
My friend and I have only had a couple intro to programming classes. In our spare time, we managed to put together a massive (16,000 lines of code, but mostly simple if's and rnd's) character generator program for our role-playing game, though it is not Windows but only console.

We got the program to be able to create a .txt file and save it, allowing users to print out the info later, which is a REAL accomplishment for us. We have one question: how can we get it to allow the user to enter their own name for the file?

Here is what we have now:

// code-on

ofstream outfile;
outfile.open("filename.txt");

// code-off

Is there a limit to filename length, or do we have to determine it? Thank you.

You can do something like this...

Note: You must use

#include <string>
using namespace std;

Code:

string szFileName;

cout << "Please enter a filename: ";
getline( cin, szFileName );

ofstream fout( szFilename.c_str() );

// More usefull stuff

fout.close( );

Something like that should work fine.