My primary C++ reference is the O'Reilly Nutshell book which has a nice example of creating a custom streambuf, but I don't think that's what I need here. Or maybe it is. I don't know.

Can anyone here remember the syntax required to use a string variable as a filename for a data file? As in:the variable is "fileName"char fileName[16] = "";and it is decided with user input:cin ...