C Program to demonstrate the ‘fgets’ function.

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Sandeepa Nadahalli

Program to demonstrate the ‘fgets’ function. The program will count the number of lines in a file. This is a function of the UNIX command ‘wc’. Read more about C Programming Language .

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#include <stdio.h>

#define LINE_LENGTH 80

main()
{
 FILE* fp;
 char line[LINE_LENGTH];
 int count=0;

 fp=fopen("/home/DOC/C/c.html","r");
 /* Count up the lines here. */
 while ( fgets(line, LINE_LENGTH, fp) != NULL) count++;

 printf("File contains %d lines.n", count);

 fclose(fp);
}

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C program to illustrate as to how the data stored on the disk is read.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Sandeepa Nadahalli

C Program to illustrate as to how the data stored on the disk is read. In this program we use the C File i/o operations to read the file from disk. fopen function open the files for reading, and fclose() closes the file. Read more about C Programming Language .

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main()
{
 FILE *fptr;
 char filename[15];
 char ch;

 printf("Enter the filename to be openedn");
 gets(filename);

 fptr = fopen (filename, "r");  /*open for reading*/

 if (fptr == NULL)
 {
  printf("Cannot open filen");
  exit(0);
 }

 ch = fgetc(fptr);

 while (ch != EOF)
 {
  printf ("%c", ch);
  ch = fgetc(fptr);
 }

 fclose(fptr);
}        /* End of main () */

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C Program for file operations.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Sandeepa Nadahalli

C program to create a file called emp.txt and store information about a person, in terms of his name, age and salary.

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#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
	FILE *fptr;
	char name[20];
	int age;
	float salary;

	fptr = fopen ("emp.txt", "w"); /*open for writing*/

	if (fptr == NULL)
	{
		printf("File does not existsn");
		return;
	}

	printf("Enter the namen");
	scanf("%s", name);
	fprintf(fptr, "Name    = %sn", name);

	printf("Enter the agen");
	scanf("%d", &age);
	fprintf(fptr, "Age     = %dn", age);

	printf("Enter the salaryn");
	scanf("%f", &salary);
	fprintf(fptr, "Salary  = %.2fn", salary);

	fclose(fptr);
}
/*Please note that you have to open the file called emp.txt in the directory*/

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