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[tralfas]

well i have seen the other program that is for that writes text to a txt document. but i didnt understand exactly how he didnt. i messed around with the code but didnt get it. can some one show me really quick.

i just want the user to be able to enter text, whatever text the user wants and then the program makes a file containing that text.

[tralfas]

anyone?

[Danny]

Look at the following article. It explains how to use the <fstream> library. http://www.devx.com/DevX/LegacyLink/9397 I don't know if your teacher used this library, but it should work.

[tralfas]

this program allows the user to name the file and then write text to a .txt file. the only problem is that the program limits how many characters the user can enter. how can i fix this?

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  ofstream myfile;
  char text[300];
  char text2[20];
  cout << "name your file (example.txt)" << endl;
  cin.getline(text2,20);
  cout << "enter your text" << endl;
  cin.getline(text,300);
  myfile.open (text2);
  myfile << text;
  myfile.close();
  system ("pause");
  return 0;
}

[destin]

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main () {
	ofstream file;
	string fileName;
	string text;
	
	cout << "Enter the name of the file: ";
	cin >> fileName;
	cout << "Enter the text to write to " << fileName << ": ";
	cin >> text;
	
	file.open(fileName.c_str());
	file << text;
	file.close();

	return 0;
}

[tralfas]

it still stops after a certain amount of characters can some one post a way to make it so that you can enter more words/characters :confused: ? should i add more strings to contain text or is there another way.

[tralfas]

wait i answered my own question. just so i can better my knowledge what does this code do: .c_str()

[Danny]

c_str() returns a const char * representation of the string object. You need to use it when a function call expects a const char * argument, and you're using a std::string object. A classic example is opening a file whose name is stored in a string object. fstream::open accepts onlt char/wchar_t * names, not strings.