I want to use MAX’s write file dialogue with ofstream to allow new lines to be written without storing them in an array, as I am trying to store more data than can be fit in an array!

Files are created by the dialogue, but is_open() remains false. I think the problem is that open() is not getting the correct path from the MAX dialogue. I include fstream and iostream.

Please let me know how to solve this problem! Thank you!

This is the function giving me errors:

‘void myobject_writefile(t_myobject *x, char *filename, short path)
{
t_filehandle fh;

char cpath[1024]; // store intended filepath here

// create the file
long err = path_createsysfile(filename, path, ‘TEXT’, &fh);

// get the full filepath in characters for ofstream, in the format: path/filename
if (!(err = path_topotentialname(path, "", cpath, false))) {
strcat(cpath, "/");
strcat(cpath, filename);
object_post((t_object *)x, "Writing %s", cpath);
}
else
object_error((t_object *)x, "Error trying to create %ld", err);

// open the file & write data
ofstream out;
out.open(cpath, fstream::out | fstream::app);

if (out.is_open()) {
out.open(cpath);

out < < "1 " << a << endl;
out < < "2 " << b << endl;
out < < "3 " << c << endl;
out < < "4 " << d << endl;

out.close();

sysfile_close(fh);
}
else
object_error((t_object *)x, "Error trying to write to this file…");
}’