al_make_temp_file (3alleg5)

• #include <allegro5/allegro.h>
  
  ALLEGRO_FILE *al_make_temp_file(const char *template, ALLEGRO_PATH **ret_path)
  
  

Make a temporary randomly named file given a filename \[aq]template\[aq].

\[aq]template\[aq] is a string giving the format of the generated filename and should include one or more capital Xs. The Xs are replaced with random alphanumeric characters, produced using a simple pseudo-random number generator only. There should be no path separators.

If \[aq]ret_path\[aq] is not NULL, the address it points to will be set to point to a new path structure with the name of the temporary file.

Returns the opened ALLEGRO_FILE(3alleg5) on success, NULL on failure.