C#

mocasu wrote:

File.Create("c:\\code\\fileName.txt"), it creates a file with the name "fileName"...rather than the value of fileName

mocasu wrote:

...what can I say...thanks both of you for being so ...

mocasu wrote:

...if that's what you think you were being...

mocasu wrote:

It wasn't that I forgot,I just didn't know that it could be done like that...

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

Someone told you that "1+1=2" and you said "I KNOW!!", then when they asked you "what's 1+1?", you said you didn't know!

mocasu wrote:

...I know how to concatenate strings! the problem is how I then refer to that "variable" when creating the .csv

string message;<br />
message = "Hello world!";<br />
Console.WriteLine(message);

System.IO.FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo
(
    string.Format
    (
        "{0:ddMMyyyy}_{1}_{2}.csv"
    ,
        System.DateTime.Now    
    ,
        "hi"
    ,
        123
    )
) ;

using ( System.IO.FileStream tw = fi.OpenWrite() )
{
...
}

System.IO.FileInfo fi ;
int seq = 0 ;

do
{
    fi = new System.IO.FileInfo
    (
        string.Format
        (
            "{0:ddMMyyyy}_{1}_{2:000}.csv"
        ,
            System.DateTime.Now
        ,
            "hi"
        ,
            ++seq
        )
    ) ;
} while ( fi.Exists ) ;

using ( System.IO.FileStream tw = fi.OpenWrite() )
{

}