[RESOLVED] Adding characters to file name to prevent overwriting?

[MattP]

jml's example is a different way to accomplish it but his also formats the path so the instead of my "myfile.txt(20)", his returns "myfile (20).txt".

myfile.txt(20) is not a good format for an output file. myfile(20).txt will open up with whatever editor is associated with txt files. You'll get a dialog asking which program to open .txt(20) files which is bad UX.

[wakawaka]

That is why I made the comment, but if the file is being read by an application and not a person, it is perfectly fine to do it as such.

[Guado]

Although I still don't understand how this code works I'll try to add it to my code, but I think I have to learn to use functions better.

Thanks a lot, you're very helpful.