Simple string manip question

[Lorn]

I'm trying to add a file tpye to the end of a string as I'm doing some
file writing. This code doesn't work, what would be the correct way of
doing this:

ofstream a_file( myString + ".txt", ios::app );

Sorry for the triviality, I've been searching around all morning to no
avail. Thanks, for any help.

Lorn

[Son of Sam]

do this:
string a,b;
string bambi = a + b;

fstream a_file;
a_file.open(bambic_str(), ios_base::in | ios_base::out | ios::binary);

[Lorn]

thanks, SOS

regards, lorn

[Phil Endecott]

Lorn wrote:

I'm trying to add a file tpye to the end of a string as I'm doing some
file writing. This code doesn't work, what would be the correct way of
doing this:

ofstream a_file( myString + ".txt", ios::app );

What is myString? And how does your code "not work" - what error
message do you get?

If myString is a char*, then + doesn't work at all.

If myString is a string, then + will do what you expect and return a string.

But the ofstream constructor requires a char* for the filename
parameter, not a std::string (aarrgghh!). So you need to get a char*
for that temporary string:

(myString+".txt").c_str()

--Phil.

[Son of Sam]

>do this:

string a,b;
string bambi = a + b; fstream a_file;
a_file.open(bambic_str(), ios_base::in | ios_base::out | ios::binary);

here i meant: a_file.open(bambi.c_str(), ios_base::in | ios_base::out |
ios::binary);
(the dot before .c_str() )

[Lorn]

It was actually a CString. I ended up doing the code below, which works
fine. Thank you guys for your help.

CString name = "myName"
CString filetype = ".txt";
CString filename = name + filetype;
ofstream a_file ( filename, ios::app );