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adam8797 (20)
Hello,

I am working on a script compiler for my school's morning announcements. so far I have the function nailed, but it is stuck in the command line and it needs to go to a teleprompter. I need to either copy it to the clipboard, or save it as a .txt file. I will post the full code and highlight what needs to be copied.

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int cday;
int Loop = 0;
int TimesLooped = 0;
int index2 = 0;
int index3 = 0;
char sanc;
char test;
string resp;
string quit = "quit";
char responce;
string sancr = " ";
string Lunch = " ";
string Anchor1 = " ";
string Anchor2 = " ";
string Date = " ";
string anc[10] = " ";
char y;
int main ()
{
top:
	cout << "What is today's full date?" << endl;
	getline(cin, Date);
	cout << endl;
	cout << "Cycle day..." << endl;
	cin >> cday;
	cout << endl;
	getline(cin, Anchor1);
	cout << "First Anchor's Name?" << endl;
	getline(cin, Anchor1);
	cout << endl;
	cout << "Second Anchor's Name?" << endl;
	getline(cin, Anchor2);
	cout << endl;
	cout << "Today's lunch is..." << endl;
	getline(cin, Lunch);
	cout << endl;
anc:
	cout << "Are there any extra announcements? y/n" << endl << "-";
	cin >> responce;
	switch (responce) {
		case 'y':
			cout << "How many?" << endl;
			cin >> Loop;
			cout << endl << Loop;
			index2=0;
			TimesLooped=0;
			Loop++;
			do {
				cout << endl << "Type an announcement" << endl;
				getline(cin, anc[index2]);
				cout << endl;
				index2++;
				TimesLooped++;
			} while (Loop != TimesLooped);
			goto printer;
			break;
		case 'n':
			goto printer;
			break;

		default:
			cout << "invalid responce";
			goto anc;
			break;
	}
printer:
	cout << "Is there a special announcement today? y/n" << endl;
	cin >> sanc;
	cout << endl;
	switch (sanc) {
		case 'y':
			cout << "who is the announcer?" << endl;
			getline(cin, sancr);
			getline(cin, sancr);
			cout << endl;
			TimesLooped=0;
			cout << "Good Morning DMS!" << endl << endl << "I'm " << Anchor1 << endl << "and I'm " << Anchor2 << "!" << endl << endl;
			cout << "Lunch Menu for today is, " << Lunch << endl << endl;
			while (index2 != TimesLooped) {
				cout << anc[index3] << endl << endl;
				index3++;
				TimesLooped++;
			}
			cout << "Now over to a special announcement from " << sancr << endl << endl;
			cout << "Thats all for today DMS." << endl << "Have a good day!";
			break;
		case 'n':
			TimesLooped=0;
			cout << "Good Morning DMS!" << endl << endl << "I'm " << Anchor1 << endl << "and I'm " << Anchor2 << "!" << endl << endl;
			cout << "Lunch Menu for today is, " << Lunch << endl << endl;
			while (index2 != TimesLooped) {
				cout << anc[index3] << endl << endl;
				index3++;
				TimesLooped++;
			}
			cout << "Thats all for today DMS." << endl << "Have a good day!" << endl << endl;
			break;

		default:
			cout << "INVALID RESPONCE. ERR 001" << endl;
			goto printer;
			break;
	}
	cout << "Program finished" << endl;
}


What the bolded and underlined lines output is what i need copied

thanks,
adam
Duthomhas (13143)
This is where I/O redirection is used.

If you are on Unix, use the xclip command to get it to the clipboard:
./myprog | xclip


If you are on Windows, use the clip command:
myprog.exe | clip


On either system, to copy to a file simply redirect as usual:
./myprog >> afile.txt
myprog.exe >> afile.txt


xclip
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xclip/

clip
http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/copy-dos-command-line-output-clipboard-clip-exe/2506/

Good luck!
HolyCheeseCube (12)
or you can look into file streaming (run a search for fstream), which gets things into a .txt file, or any kind of file technically.
adam8797 (20)
On either system, to copy to a file simply redirect as usual:
./myprog >> afile.txt
myprog.exe >> afile.txt


Where would I put the lines of code?
adam8797 (20)
never mind I found the ofstream myfile command here:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/
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