How to name a save?

[MadMarines]

Hi !, I’m a french student (excuse my english), and I have a problem…

I make a game levels creator and I want to give a name at the save, I know how to save but I don’t know how a can give a name at them.

I will want to create a folder named “level” and in that folder, put the different level who I have maked.

the command who I current use is " saveStrings( “level/level_1.txt”, board")"…
[board is the name of the board with all my level’s informations. ]

So, I need help for give different name to every saves

[glv]

Hello,

Try this:

Renaming PDF generated files

Unable to find the answer to this in REFERENCE section. I have a very simple program to generate random color block overlaps. Currently set up to record a PDF of each instance when code runs. How do I generate a new name for the PDF each time code is run (otherwise it’s the same file name each time and overwrites the previous PDF file)? CURRENT CODE BELOW: import processing.pdf.*; float randomH1 = random(300, 400); void setup() { size (400, 600); noLoop(); beginRecord(PDF, "filenam…

[MadMarines]

Thanks, it was exactly what I search…

But this program create a PDF… Do you know how to do the same thing with a .txt ?

[glv]

@MadMarines

Do you know how to do the same thing with a .txt ?

Yes.

Look at the example here:

saveStrings() / Reference

And apply to your code.
I would start with something simpler.
Look up all the references related to the other post to understand what it is doing.

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Additional references:
year() / Reference / Processing.org Also look at related ones.
nf() / Reference / Processing.org
+ (addition) / Reference / Processing.org
Characters Strings / Examples / Processing.org

[MadMarines]

Thank you so much for your help