How to concat an int to a wchar_t* in C++?

c++ int wchar-t wchar
DavideChicco.it picture DavideChicco.it · Dec 22, 2011 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I have to create and write on N files, everyone must have an integer ending to identificate it.

This is my piece of code:

for(int i=0; i<MAX; i++)
{
    uscita.open("nameFile"+i+".txt", ios::out); 
    uscita <<  getData() << endl;
    uscita.close();     
}

And that's what I would like to find in my directory after execution:

nameFile0.txt
nameFile1.txt
nameFile2.txt
...
nameFileMAX.txt

The problem of the above code is that I get the compilin' error:

error C2110: '+' Impossible to add two pointers

If I try to create a string for the name, another problem comes in:

string s ="nameFile"+i+".txt";
uscita.open(s, ios::out);

And the problem is:

error C2664: you cannot convert from string to const wchar_t*

What can I do? How can I create files with different names concating int to wchar_t*?

Answer

Joe picture Joe · Dec 22, 2011

You can use a wstringstream

std::wstringstream wss;
wss << "nameFile" << i << ".txt";
uscita.open(wss.str().c_str(), ios::out);

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