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Expert C Programming    (ISBN: 0131774298)


 

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 Release Date: 14 June, 1994
 Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR (Paperback)
 Sales Rank: 23,761

 Author: Peter van der Linden, Peter Van Der Linden









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 File Reading 2001-11-24 03:34:34
 
Category: source:c:files
Description: Example of reading a file with fopen() and fgets()
Platform: unix
Author: detour
Viewed: 25161
Rating: 4.2/5 (155 votes)
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fileread.c
/* fileread.c written by detour@metalshell.com
 *
 * example of reading a file with fopen() and fgets()
 * 
 * http://www.metalshell.com/
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>

void stripnl(char *str) {
  while(strlen(str) && ( (str[strlen(str) - 1] == 13) || 
       ( str[strlen(str) - 1] == 10 ))) {
    str[strlen(str) - 1] = 0;
  }
}

int main() {
  FILE *infile;
  char fname[40];
  char line[100];
  int lcount;

  /* Read in the filename */
  printf("Enter the name of a ascii file: ");
  fgets(fname, sizeof(fname), stdin);

  /* We need to get rid of the newline char. */
  stripnl(fname);

  /* Open the file.  If NULL is returned there was an error */
  if((infile = fopen(fname, "r")) == NULL) {
    printf("Error Opening File.\n");
    exit(1);
  }
  
  while( fgets(line, sizeof(line), infile) != NULL ) {
    /* Get each line from the infile */
    lcount++;
    /* print the line number and data */
    printf("Line %d: %s", lcount, line);  
  }

  fclose(infile);  /* Close the file */
}
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