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I'm somehow messing up opening a file and making a c-style filename
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The following code is part of a program to document the book in my house, like those things they have at public libraries. I learned about minupulating files in programs last night and have many errors in this program.
First, the c-style string for filename comes out as - filename.txt" instead of without the quote
And even if you try running my program with a default filename like newbook it turns out to fail.
First, the c-style string for filename comes out as - filename.txt" instead of without the quote
And even if you try running my program with a default filename like newbook it turns out to fail.
Book::Book(string Title,string AuthorLastName,string AuthorFirstName,string PublishingCompany,int SeriesNumber,int NumPages,int CopyrightYear,string Series):
m_Title(Title),
m_Series(Series),
m_AuthorFirstName(AuthorFirstName),
m_AuthorLastName(AuthorLastName),
m_PublishingCompany(PublishingCompany),
m_SeriesNumber(SeriesNumber),
m_NumPages(NumPages),
m_CopyrightYear(CopyrightYear)
{
fstream filehandle;
string filename=m_Title+".txt";
char m_filename[80];
for(int i=0;i<filename.size();++i)
{
m_filename[i]=filename[i];
}
cout<<m_filename;
filehandle.open(m_filename);
if (!filehandle || !filehandle.good())
{
std::cout << "could not open file!\n";
}
filehandle << "out" << std::endl;
if (filehandle.fail())
{
std::cout << "failed to append to file!\n";
}
filehandle<<m_Title<<"\n";
filehandle<<m_AuthorFirstName<<" "<<m_AuthorLastName<<"\n";
filehandle<<"Published by "<<m_PublishingCompany<<" in "<<m_CopyrightYear<<"\n";
filehandle<<"No. "<<m_SeriesNumber<<" in the "<<m_Series<<" series\n";
filehandle<<m_NumPages<<" pages\n";
}
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simply use the 'c_str' function of the string class to convert to c-style string.
thanks
-chandra
-chandra
Please see my comments below
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Originally Posted by shipeshipaca 
Book::Book(string Title,string AuthorLastName,string AuthorFirstName,string PublishingCompany,int SeriesNumber,int NumPages,int CopyrightYear,string Series): m_Title(Title), m_Series(Series), m_AuthorFirstName(AuthorFirstName), m_AuthorLastName(AuthorLastName), m_PublishingCompany(PublishingCompany), m_SeriesNumber(SeriesNumber), m_NumPages(NumPages), m_CopyrightYear(CopyrightYear) { fstream filehandle; string filename=m_Title+".txt"; char m_filename[80]; for(int i=0;i<filename.size();++i) { m_filename[i]=filename[i]; } //the c-style string should end with a '\0', //so add line m_filename[i] = '\0'; //define i out of the for statement cout<<m_filename; filehandle.open(m_filename); // the simplest way is to use filehandle.open(filename.c_str()); }
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