User selection of text files

[MildewyTester]

Does anyone know how to open a text file such that the user selects the name of the text file?

i.e.

infile ifstream;
string name;
cin>>name;

ifstream.open(name.txt); //Name is the user defined string 

[pogrady]

except that it would just be the variable 'name'. This means that you would need to append the file type to the end of the string before passing it as a parameter to the ifstream.open() method.

the string class will do this for you easily.

ifstream inFile; //notice here that the identifier and keyword have exchanged places.
string name;
cin>>name;

name+=".txt";
ifstream.open(name);

[monad]

Line 6 in popgrady's example should be inFile.open( name.c_str() );, assuming string is an std::string.

[MildewyTester]

Thanks so much! This really helps me out.

[Bretdde]

this information is too much good for me for understanding...