Create multiple directoris in a for loop in c++ on windows

Question

I'm trying to make a program which will create a sum of directories the user wants to create.

this is my code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include<windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])    {

    int nrDirs = 0;
    cin>> nrDirs;

    for (int i = 0; i <= nrDirs; i++) {
             CreateDirectory ("C:\\Users\\myName\\Desktop\\new", NULL);
    }
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Now my problem, I don't know how to rename the directory. I know how to do this in Objective-C:

"C:\\Users\\myName\\Desktop\\new%i", i

But this don't work in c++. :(

So how do i do this?

For all practical purposes, this is a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342162/stdstring-formating-like-sprintf — jogojapan, Jun 21 '12 at 03:19

Superman · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-21T04:25:47.543

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Use can use CString::Format:

dirName.Format("C:\\Users\\myName\\Desktop\\new%i", i);

Use can use std::stringstream:

dirName << "C:\\Users\\myName\\Desktop\\new" << i;

Use can use sprintf:

sprintf(dirName, "C:\\Users\\myName\\Desktop\\new%i", i);

For all the above cases, dirName is a buffer that you will need to pass to CreateDirectory.

If intermediate directories in the path do not exist, use SHCreateDirectory. This API also creates intermediate directories in the path if they do not exist.

edited Jun 21 '12 at 04:25

answered Jun 21 '12 at 03:28

Superman

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For the 3 examples it would be as follows - 1) CString dirName; 2) std::stringstream dirName; 3) char dirName[MAX_PATH]; – Superman Jun 21 '12 at 05:10

Create multiple directoris in a for loop in c++ on windows

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