I have successfully written a program which can open a file on an SD card and write "hello world" to the file. However I am encountering a problem when transferring this code to a more complicated program. The program counts the number of times something passes through a two light-gate system this integer variable is given the name lemnum. Lemnum is what I am trying to write to the file on the SD card, however the file doesn't open. Every time that the file should open, i.e. when 1 is added to lemnum, instead the error message is printed to the serial port. Below is the relevant section of the code.
else if ((array[0] == 0) && (array[1] == 0))//lemur has entered the box
{
lemnum = lemnum++;//add one to the lemnum
state = 1;//return to state 1
Serial.println(lemnum);//print the number of lemurs to the serial port
//open the file
dataFile = SD.open("lemur.txt", FILE_WRITE);
//if the file is available write to it
if (dataFile)
{
//write lemnum to the file
dataFile.println(lemnum);
//close file
dataFile.close();
}
//if the file doesn't open, pop up an error
else
{
Serial.println("error opening lemur.txt");
}
break;
Any help, is greatly appreciated!