Can someone help me? (file names)

[butterfly21]

I have a program which asks the user to enter a starting value. Then opens a file to send values to. Is there a way that i can make the file name depend on what the user starts with, or get them to enter a file name?

Here is the start of my program...


printf("Enter a starting digit or string: ");
scanf("%d",&i[0]);

printf("How many times do you want to run Conway's Sequence? ");
scanf("%d",&rept);

FILE *dat;
dat = fopen("data.dat","w");
FILE *dat2;
dat2 = fopen("data2.dat","w"); ......



So instead of using data.dat and data2.dat, have something depending on the program!

Thanks

[vpawizard]

I have a program which asks the user to enter a starting value. Then opens a file to send values to. Is there a way that i can make the file name depend on what the user starts with, or get them to enter a file name?

Here is the start of my program...


printf("Enter a starting digit or string: ");
scanf("%d",&i[0]);

printf("How many times do you want to run Conway's Sequence? ");
scanf("%d",&rept);

FILE *dat;
dat = fopen("data.dat","w");
FILE *dat2;
dat2 = fopen("data2.dat","w"); ......



So instead of using data.dat and data2.dat, have something depending on the program!

Thanks

Hello,
You can create the filename by appending the starting digit to the name of file e.g. if the starting digit is 5, the file will be called data5.dat or if the starting digit is 10, name would be data10.dat, etc. It can be done using following logic:

 
char* filename;
 
filename=strcpy(filename,"data");
strcat(filename,itoa(i[0]));
strcat(filename,".dat");
 
FILE *fp=fopen(filename,"w");
.
.
.
 

Regards,

[butterfly21]

Hello,
You can create the filename by appending the starting digit to the name of file e.g. if the starting digit is 5, the file will be called data5.dat or if the starting digit is 10, name would be data10.dat, etc. It can be done using following logic:

 
char* filename;
 
filename=strcpy(filename,"data");
strcat(filename,itoa(i[0]));
strcat(filename,".dat");
 
FILE *fp=fopen(filename,"w");
.
.
.
 

Regards,

Thanks for your quick response. I have tried what you suggested and included the relavenat header files, however it has an error saying itoa requires 3 arguments! What are the other twoit depends on?

Thanks

[butterfly21]

Thanks for your quick response. I have tried what you suggested and included the relavenat header files, however it has an error saying itoa requires 3 arguments! What are the other twoit depends on?

Thanks

Also i am working in C++, so it sure if this is the best form to use.

Thanks

[vpawizard]

Also i am working in C++, so it sure if this is the best form to use.

Thanks

itoa() has three arguments.
1st- The integer to be converted
2nd- The buffer(string) in which to store the number converted to string.
3rd- Radix. Base of number. For decimal numbers-10.