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.
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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