Hopefully my first forum post isn't too ambiguous, but I've searched for some time now across the web, and can't find anything. Basically I want to create a new text file to hold some, you guessed it, text, but I want to be able to have the name of the file predetermined in a string. However, I'm apparently not allowed to do that, and I have to write out the name of the file upon creation (the commented section of code is what "allowed"). If I try to compile, I get an error that goes along the lines of "no matching function for call to 'std::basic_ofstream<char, std::char_traits......". Sorry if this doesn't make any sense, I'm a pretty hardcore newbie (just started coding about a week and a half ago). If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.
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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
usingnamespace std;
int main()
{
string myFileName = "myFileTest.txt";
ofstream myfile;
myfile.open (/*"theRightWayToCreateAFile.txt"*/myFileName);
myfile << "This is my text in the file called:" << myFileName;
myfile.close();
return 0;
}
Thanks for taking the time to read and possibly respond to my post!