Drawing a blank on how to write "." to config.conf file without C++ thinking " " is the start and stop of string to write to file. Did a quick google search for like cout<<"""\n"; to display "" and no results, since this is related to the same problem.

Below is quick example code similar to what I am using.



Code: [Select]#include <IOSTREAM>
#include <fstream>
using namespace STD;

int main () {
  ofstream myfile;
  myfile.open ("config.conf", ios::app);
  myfile << " "." \n";
  myfile.close();
  return 0;
}Maybe if you had typed "C++ quotes in string" into Google you would have had better luck...

MODIFYING a character in a string from its normal meaning is called "escaping" and is done in many languages by preceding the character you want to modify by an "escape character". The escape character in Java,  Perl, Python, C and C++ is a backslash. In these languages there are two escape styles.

1. More usual, I think, you put the backslash before the character you want to modify.

printf("Dave Lembke said \"I want quotes in a string\" string.\n");

2. Another way is to use a backslash, a lowercase 'x' and the ASCII code (in hex) of the character (omitting the character itself thus...

printf("Dave Lembke said \x22I want quotes in a string\x22 string.\n");

This will only work in an ASCII environment.




Sorry, hasty editing made those examples get the word "string" twice... this looks a bit better...

printf("Dave Lembke said \"I want quotes in a string\" in his post today.\n");

printf("Dave Lembke said \x22I want quotes in a string\x22 in his post today.\n");

So try this in your code

myfile << " \".\" \n";

Thanks Salmon that fixed it. For some reason I was thinking it was Quote

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