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How do you save the output of a program to file?

Code in next post, my book isn't very helpfult. I know to use fstream.

#include <string>
#include <iostream>


using namespace std;


void main ()
{
int day, year, month, a, y, m;
string day_of_week;


cout << "Enter the year (e.g. 2000): ";
cin >> year;
cout <<endl;
cout << "Enter the month (1-12): ";
cin >> month;
cout <<endl;
cout << "Enter the day (1-31): ";
cin >> day;
cout<<endl;

a = (14 - month ) / 12;

y = year - a;

m = month + y*a - 2;

day = (day + y + y/4 - y/100 + y/400 + 31*m/12) % 7;

if(day==0) {
day_of_week = "Sunday";
}else if(day==1) {
day_of_week = "Monday";
}else if(day==2) {
day_of_week = "Tuesday";
}else if(day==3) {
day_of_week = "Wednesday";
}else if(day==4) {
day_of_week = "Thursday";
}else if(day==5) {
day_of_week = "Friday";
}else if(day==6) {
day_of_week = "Saturday";
}


cout << month << "/" << day << "/" << year << " falls on a " << day_of_week <<endl;



}

What is the assignment first?
Given the nature of your assignment, it seems that you don't have to do any real file processing.

However, some commentary:

In C++, it may be legal to use void main() but you should never use this in a real program. It should always be int main() or int main(int argc, char* argv[])

The variable a should not be an integer. It should be a double. Otherwise a will always be zero. In fact, since A is always zero, it has no use in your calculations.

Have you checked the correctness?

Also after every cin statement you shouldn't have a cout to skip a line.
Your output would like this:
Enter a month: 12

Enter a day: 31

etc.

While it may look neater on screen, it makes the code unnecessarily long.

Anyhow, to get the output to a file without coding it:
Do this
executablefilneame > output.txt

You also have another logic bug.
At the end, you output the result. You output the day variable which you modfied. So if I enter the 31st, it will be modified to be a number from 0-7.

Yeah, that was the wrong code. I'll check and see if that works in a minute and try it though.

#include <string> // String header file
#include <iostream> // Input Output stream header file
#include <fstream>

using namespace std; Standard included statement


void main ()
{

int day, year, month, weekday, y, m; float a;
string day_of_week;
char ch;




cout << "Enter the year (e.g. 2000): ";
cin >> year;
cout <<endl;
cout << "Enter the month (1-12): ";
cin >> month;
cout <<endl;
cout << "Enter the day (1-31): ";
cin >> day;
cout<<endl;


a = (14 - month)/12;

y = year - a;

m = month + 12*a - 2;

weekday = (day + y + y/4 - y/100 + y/400 +31*m/12) % 7;
if(weekday==0) {
day_of_week = "Sunday";
}else if(weekday==1) {
day_of_week = "Monday";
}else if(weekday==2) {
day_of_week = "Tuesday";
}else if(weekday==3) {
day_of_week = "Wednesday";
}else if(weekday==4) {
day_of_week = "Thursday";
}else if(weekday==5) {
day_of_week = "Friday";
}else if(weekday==6) {
day_of_week = "Saturday";
}


cout << month << "/" << day << "/" << year << " falls on a " << day_of_week <<endl<<endl;


cin.get(ch);




}

Alex,

Add this: cin.ignore();

before the cin.get(ch);

Thank you!!! I owe you one.

Hello,

Just a heads up. This forum has bbcode available, so in the future, please use the code tag when displaying code. Makes everyones life a little bit easier.

example: