User Defined save file (help)

I am trying to make a program with a save option, but let the user choose the name of the file.

eg:


char UserDefName[30];
ofstream SaveGAME(UserDefName + ".txt");



But that doesn't work, so I need a way to add '.txt' to the end of the UserDefName string, any suggestions?

Paul

strcat

This would be a wonderful time to use the string class. Simplicity in programming is heaven.

Code:

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string UserDefName;
.
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ofstream SaveGAME(UserDefName + ".txt");

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But if you must use C strings, place the ".txt" extension onto the end of the string with strcat in the <cstring> header.

-Prelude

Okay, this is what i did, but it didn't seem to work, I must have the wording wrong.

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


char UserName[20];
char Extension[5] = ".txt";


int main()
    {


    cout << "Type the name of the game to be saved: ";
    cin >> UserName;

    strcat(UserName & ".txt");

    ofstream SaveGAME(UserName);
            SaveGAME << "Hello";
            SaveGAME.close();

    }

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Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

char UserName[20];
char *Extension = ".txt";

int main()
    {
    cout << "Type the name of the game to be saved: ";
    cin >> UserName;

    strcat(UserName, Extension);

    ofstream SaveGAME(UserName);
    SaveGAME << "Hello";
    SaveGAME.close();
    }

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Be sure to check that there is room in UserName for the extra characters.

-Prelude

Extension is gonna have be char Extension[7] I think thus

" . t x t " /0

I have no idea where you got the '&' in function strcat from.

You cannot input a char array like that: you have to use string class or else a loop.

Main() returns 0.

BTW, thanks for all the descriptions of errors that you got compiling...

Oh thanks you guys are legends. How do you know all this stuff? Is there like a sacred forest of header files that you can go to and everything is explained there?

All is good now. Thanks.

Paul

>Extension is gonna have be char Extension[7] I think thus
Where do you get seven? The double quote characters delimit a string unless the escape character \" is used. That makes 5, but strcat takes the first character of the source string and uses it to replace the nul terminator of the destination string, so you really only have to consider 4.

>I have no idea where you got the '&' in function strcat from.
I imagine he thought that some sort of bitwise operation took place, either that or a typo. ;)

>You cannot input a char array like that: you have to use string class or else a loop.
Huh? I assume you mean cin>>UserName, which is perfectly legal and will work fine unless the user enters a name with spaces in it.

>Main() returns 0.
Or some variation of success or failure. There are three portable values that it returns, 0 being one of them.

-Prelude

>Is there like a sacred forest of header files that you can go to
>and everything is explained there?
Yes, it's called JTC1/SC22/WG21. :D

-Prelude

>>Is there like a sacred forest of header files that you can go to
>>and everything is explained there?
>Yes, it's called JTC1/SC22/WG21.

Lol!! :D :D :D

Well actually strcat() is just part of a little string function family that almost everyone uses sometime.
Theres also strcmp() for comparing strings, strcpy for copying strings and strtok() for tokenizing strings.

And then there are som others that i dont know of yet....hmm....*goes to visit JTC1/SC22/WG21*