Text save problem

[korven]

Hi.

I'm a newbie on C++ and I have a problem with my program.

My program randoms a bunch of names and the puts the out on the screen and I want to save the text in a file (the same text as the screen shows).

Here's the basic code:

char c[4][6] = {"Tony,"James","Johnny","Lars"};

srand((unsigned)time(NULL));


for (i=0;i<4;i++){

    cout<<c[rand() % 4]<<"\n";

}
 // save code?

Now I want to save the random names that are put out on the screen.

Please help.

[TadaTensai]

//****REQUIRES FSTREAM.H****\\

char c[4][6] = {"Tony,"James","Johnny","Lars"};

ofstream a_file("output.txt");
srand((unsigned)time(NULL));

for (i=0;i<4;i++){

    cout<<c[rand() % 4]<<"\n";
    a_file<<c[rand() % 4]<<"\n";

}
a_file.close();

Thanks to
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[korven]

Thanks but that doesn't work, I tried it before. The text that is printed out on the screen and the text that is being put in the textfile is different. Maybe I need to store the randomized names in a array or something?
Any other ideas?

[jim mcnamara]

ansi i/o works

[code]
#include <stdio.h>
int j;

FILE *fptr;
char c[4][6] = {"Tony,"James","Johnny","Lars"};

srand((unsigned)time(NULL));

fptr = fopen("myfile.txt");

for (i=0;i<4;i++){
j = rand() % 4;
// comment out since you're writing to a file --
// cout << c[j] << '\n';
fprintf( "%s\n", c[j] );
}

flcose(fptr);

[/close]
PS: this does work;
don't bunch up everything - the compiler doesn't care but you will later on. Readability counts.