Saving What Is Typed While Running to a Text Document

[ethancollins]

Hi. I am fairly new to C++, and I was wondering how I would save a specific part of what is output from the computer to a text file? This is my code:

#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string firstname, middlename, lastname, day, month, year, color, place, favoritetime, food, drink, game, placetoeat, book, electronicdevice, laptopbrand, desktopbrand, fullname, fulldateofbirth, favoritemeal;
    cout << "What is your first name?" << endl;
    getline(cin, firstname);
    cout << "What is your middle name?" << endl;
    getline(cin, middlename);
    cout << "What is your last name?" << endl;
    getline(cin, lastname);
    cout << "On what day were you born?" << endl;
    getline(cin, day);
    cout << "In what month were you born?" << endl;
    getline(cin, month);
    cout << "In what year were you born?" << endl;
    getline(cin, year);
    cout << "What is your favorite time of day? (Morning; Afternoon; Evening;)" << endl;
    getline(cin, favoritetime);
    cout << "What is your favorite color?" << endl;
    getline(cin, color);
    cout << "What is your favorite food?" << endl;
    getline(cin, food);
    cout << "What is your favorite drink?" << endl;
    getline(cin, drink);
    cout << "What is your favorite place to eat?" << endl;
    getline(cin, placetoeat);
    cout << "What is your favorite game?" << endl;
    getline(cin, game);
    cout << "What is your favorite electronic device? (Laptop, iPad, TV, etc.)" << endl;
    getline(cin, electronicdevice);
    cout << "What is your favorite laptop brand?" << endl;
    getline(cin, laptopbrand);
    cout << "What is your favorite desktop computer brand?" << endl;
    getline(cin, desktopbrand);
    fullname = firstname + " " + middlename + " " + lastname + ".";
    fulldateofbirth = month + " " + day + "," + " " + year + ".";
    food += " and ";
    drink += ",";
    favoritemeal = food + drink;
    favoritetime += ".";
    color += ".";
    placetoeat += ".";
    electronicdevice += ".";
    laptopbrand += ",";
    desktopbrand += ".";
    cout << "Processing Information..." << endl;
    Sleep(5000);
    cout << "Your full name is " << fullname << "You were born on " << fulldateofbirth << "Your favorite time of day is the " << favoritetime << endl << "Your favorite color is " << color << "Your favorite meal consists of " << favoritemeal << " and your favorite place to eat is " << placetoeat << endl << " Your favorite game is " << game << " and your favorite electronic device is a " << electronicdevice << " Your favorite laptop brand is " << laptopbrand << " and your favorite desktop brand is " << desktopbrand << " Thank you for taking the Introduction quiz!" << endl;

    return 0;
}

Does anyone know how I would do this? I need an answer pretty quickly.

[Hippogriff]

First add #include <fstream> at the top of your file.

Then you can simply do this

        ofstream File;
	File.open("Info.txt"); 

	File << "Any info here"  // (in your case that long sentence) 

	File.close();

By default this will create the text file where ever the program was ran from, if you want to save it at a different place you can do

	string FileName = "C:\\Users\\Desktop\\Info.txt";   // Whatever filename you need (or you can have user enter it) 

	ofstream File;
	File.open(FileName.c_str()); 

[ethancollins]

Thank You!!! =) Wait...... My sentence has alot of quotation marks in it. how can I put my sentence in between the quotation marks without completely messing up my other code?

[Hippogriff]

My mistake, in your case you just need to put the sentence as it will recognize all of the variable types etc.

[ethancollins]

Ok, thanks!

[ethancollins]

I did what you said, and it makes the text document exactly where I want it to with the name I want it to, but if I open up the document, there is nothing there. (No Long Sentence Telling Me What My Favorite Stuff Is, Just a Blank Page)

[Hippogriff]

        ofstream File;
	File.open("Info.txt"); 

	File << "Your full name is " << fullname << "You were born on " << fulldateofbirth << "Your favorite time of day is the " << favoritetime << "Your favorite color is " << color << "Your favorite meal consists of " << favoritemeal << " and your favorite place to eat is " << placetoeat << "your favorite game is " << game << " and your favorite electronic device is a " << electronicdevice << "Your favorite laptop brand is " << laptopbrand << " and your favorite desktop brand is " << desktopbrand << "Thank you for taking the Introduction quiz!" << endl;  // (in your case that long sentence) 

	File.close();

Do you have it set up exactly like that? I have tried running it and it all runs correctly.
Of course it needs to be at the end of your code, after everything has been entered by the user.

[ethancollins]

Yeah, that fixed it. I put the code in incorrectly. Thank you! =)

[ethancollins]

Oh, great. Now I have another problem. After It does the part that says Processing Information... it shuts off right away, before I press any buttons, giving me no time to read what it has said. Could this be due to the "File.Close" function? Do you know how I could stop this?

[Hippogriff]

That is because you have nothing to pause the console window after it is done showing all of the data (it's not related to fstream)

There are a few lines you can use at the end of your program (right before return 0) to stop this...
- system("PAUSE"); (highly disliked by most programmers and I wouldn't recommend it)
- cin.get() will pause the program until you enter something

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/1988/

A few others are probably mentioned in that thread as well.

[ethancollins]

Ok, thanks.