using string to name directory

[hartmannr76]

Hey guys,

Alright I am making a program that will take the users input and combines it with my string that I named for my directory. My problem is when I am trying to use mkdir, it will not let me use the string as my source to create and create the folder there... Here is my code...

string dirName = "c:/Dev-Cpp/AA/";
string usrInput; // This is where the user inputed a string of their choice

// Combines the user input with directory info
dirName = dirName + usrInput;

mkdir(dirName);


Ok that was my first question... My next is, when I have made this folder named by the user, how would I refer to it when I am making a new file in that folder... Once again more code...

ofstream myfile(?? "/password.txt");
// where the ?? is, is where my problem is located, as you saw in the previous problem I combined the directory name with user input, now I want to refer to that string and add the "/password.txt" next to it to create a new text file in that directory...

Any help is appreciated... THANKKS!!

[Duthomhas]

mkdir() takes a (const char*) as argument, not a string, so you have to say:

mkdir( dirName.c_str() );

Combine filenames by adding them:

string fileName = dirName + "/password.txt";

Hope this helps.

[hartmannr76]

Haha, thanks a lot, that really helped!! I had just started reading into doing this with files and was wondering how the syntax would be for folder making but that worked!! Thanks Duoas!!