Opening an outputfile and giving it a name

Question

How come line 43
outputfile.open(receiptName);
works in Visual Studio 2017, but not in Code Blocks?
https://pastebin.com/ueaXAHUz
http://i.imgur.com/slcIubm.png
http://i.imgur.com/28KLA0s.png

Answer 1

This is probably because Code::Blocks run a lower version of the C++ compiler which has a non-overloaded version of .open() which requires the string literal stored inside a string variable to be converted to C-style strings (const char*) before accepting it as a legit parameter.

Try including <cstring> header and do:

outputfile.open(receiptName.c_str());