very simple, I hope?

Hi,

I've just finished coding a database program which saves info to a file currently defined as "mb.dat".

The problem is I want the user to give the filename when prompted.

So how can i save a string variable that I can use in the following code?


FILE *fp;

fp = fopen("variable","wb"); /* open file for writing */

I've had a go at using stringcpy and defining the varible as type CHAR but I'm going wrong somewhere as the compiler just shouts at me!

I'm a beginner so please go easy. Thanks.

char buf[some_size];

fgets( buf, sizeof(buf), stdin );
fp = fopen( buf, "wb" );


Quzah.

> fgets( buf, sizeof(buf), stdin );
Don't forget to remove the \n from the end of the line

Here's how
char *p = strchr( buff, '\n' );
if ( p != NULL ) *p = '\0';

>Here's how
>char *p = strchr( buff, '\n' );
>if ( p != NULL ) *p = '\0';

Wouldn't this work as well?
fgets( buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, stdin );

Quote:

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>Here's how
>char *p = strchr( buff, '\n' );
>if ( p != NULL ) *p = '\0';

Wouldn't this work as well?
fgets( buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, stdin );

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No. 'fgets' reads up through a newline character, or until it's read the total number of characters. It always reads up to a newline if there is one in the string before it's buffer is full.

All you are doing is changing the amount it reads into the buffer, not the fact that it will still read the newline:


buf[1000];

fgets( buf, sizeof(buf) -1, stdin ) ... just makes it read up to 999 total characters instead of a thousand. If the strings were something simple, like this:

"mystring\n"
"string\n"

It would still end up reading the newline. If the strings were 2000 characters in length, without a newline, it'd only read 999 of the characters and stop.

Quzah.