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C File Handling Functions

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File Handling Functions in C

1. fopen()

Definition: Opens a file and returns a file pointer (FILE *). If the file doesn't exist, it can create it

(depending on mode).

Syntax: FILE *fopen(const char *filename, const char *mode);

Example: FILE *fp = fopen("data.txt", "r");

Output: Opens the file 'data.txt' in read mode.

2. fclose()

Definition: Closes an open file.

Syntax: int fclose(FILE *stream);

Example: fclose(fp);

Output: Closes the file pointed by 'fp'.

3. fgetc()

Definition: Reads a single character from the file.

Syntax: int fgetc(FILE *stream);

Example: char ch = fgetc(fp);

Output: Reads one character from the file pointed by 'fp'.

4. fgets()

Definition: Reads a string (line) from the file until a newline or EOF is reached.

Syntax: char *fgets(char *str, int n, FILE *stream);

Example: fgets(buffer, 100, fp);

Output: Reads up to 100 characters or until a newline from the file.


5. fputc()

Definition: Writes a single character to the file.

Syntax: int fputc(int ch, FILE *stream);

Example: fputc('A', fp);

Output: Writes the character 'A' to the file.

6. fputs()

Definition: Writes a string to the file.

Syntax: int fputs(const char *str, FILE *stream);

Example: fputs("Hello", fp);

Output: Writes the string 'Hello' to the file.

7. fscanf()

Definition: Reads formatted input from the file (similar to scanf but from a file).

Syntax: int fscanf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);

Example: fscanf(fp, "%d %s", &num, str);

Output: Reads an integer and a string from the file.

8. fprintf()

Definition: Writes formatted output to a file (similar to printf but to a file).

Syntax: int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);

Example: fprintf(fp, "%d %s", num, str);

Output: Writes an integer and a string to the file.

9. feof()

Definition: Returns true (non-zero) if the end of the file has been reached.
Syntax: int feof(FILE *stream);

Example: while (!feof(fp)) { ... }

Output: Returns non-zero when the end of the file is reached.

10. ferror()

Definition: Checks for any error in the file operations.

Syntax: int ferror(FILE *stream);

Example: if (ferror(fp)) { ... }

Output: Returns non-zero if an error occurred while reading/writing the file.

11. rewind()

Definition: Resets the file pointer to the beginning of the file.

Syntax: void rewind(FILE *stream);

Example: rewind(fp);

Output: Moves the file pointer back to the start of the file.

12. ftell()

Definition: Returns the current position of the file pointer.

Syntax: long ftell(FILE *stream);

Example: long pos = ftell(fp);

Output: Returns the current file pointer position in bytes.

13. fseek()

Definition: Moves the file pointer to a specific position.

Syntax: int fseek(FILE *stream, long offset, int origin);

Example: fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);


Output: Moves the file pointer to the end of the file.

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