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I wrote this routine which is supposed to open a fi
I wrote this routine which is supposed to open a file: myfopen(char *filename, FILE *fp) { fp = fopen(filename, "r"); } But when I call it like this: FILE *infp; myfopen("filename.dat", infp); the infp variable in the caller doesn't get set properly. Functions in C always receive copies of their arg... 2015-10-09, 1243👍, 0💬

I cant even get a simple fopen call to work
I can't even get a simple fopen call to work! What's wrong with this call? FILE *fp = fopen(filename, 'r'); fopen's mode argument must be a string, like "r", not a character like 'r'. 2015-10-09, 1329👍, 0💬

How can I open files with names like ...
How can I open files with names like ``file1'', ``file2'', ``file3'', etc., where the numeric part is controlled by a variable? Basically I want ``file%d'', like printf.. You want printf's close cousin sprintf, which ``prints'' to a string: char filename[FILENAME_MAX]; sprintf(filename, "file%d", i)... 2015-10-07, 1358👍, 0💬

I am trying to update a file in place ...
I'm trying to update a file in place, by using fopen mode "r+", reading a certain string, and writing back a modified string, but it's not working. Be sure to call fseek before you write, both to seek back to the beginning of the string you're trying to overwrite, and because an fseek or fflush is a... 2015-10-07, 1357👍, 0💬

How can I insert or delete a line (or record) in the middle of a file?
How can I insert or delete a line (or record) in the middle of a file? In general, there is no way to do this. The usual solution is simply to rewrite the file. When you find yourself needing to insert data into an existing file, here are a few alternatives you can try: * Rearrange the data file so ... 2015-10-05, 1400👍, 0💬

How can I recover the file name given an open stream?
How can I recover the file name given an open stream? This problem is, in general, insoluble. Under Unix, for instance, a scan of the entire disk (perhaps involving special permissions) would theoretically be required, and would fail if the descriptor were connected to a pipe or referred to a delete... 2015-10-05, 1307👍, 0💬

Once I have used freopen, how can I get the original stdout (or stdin) back?
Once I have used freopen, how can I get the original stdout (or stdin) back? There isn't a good way. If you need to switch back, the best solution is not to have used freopen in the first place. Try using your own explicit output (or input) stream variable, which you can reassign at will, while leav... 2015-10-01, 1440👍, 0💬

How can I tell if standard input or output is redirected
How can I tell if standard input or output is redirected (i.e. whether ``&lt;'' or ``&gt;'' was used on the invocation command line)? You can't tell directly, but you can usually look at a few other things to make whatever decision you need to. If you want your program to take input from std... 2015-10-01, 1365👍, 0💬

How can I arrange to have output go two places at once, e.g. to the screen and to a file?
How can I arrange to have output go two places at once, e.g. to the screen and to a file? You can't do this directly, but you could write your own printf variant which printed everything twice. Here is a sample logprintf function which prints to both stdout and a preopened log file: #include &lt... 2015-09-29, 1325👍, 0💬

How can I get back to the interactive keyboard if stdin is redirected?
I'm trying to write a program like ``more.'' How can I get back to the interactive keyboard if stdin is redirected? There is no portable way of doing this. Under Unix, you can open the special file /dev/tty. Under MS-DOS, you can try opening the ``file'' CON, or use routines or BIOS calls such as ge... 2015-09-29, 1310👍, 0💬

I want to read and write numbers between files and memory ...
I want to read and write numbers between files and memory in a byte-at-a-time way, not as formatted characters the way fprintf and fscanf do. How can I do this? What you're trying to do is usually called ``binary'' I/O. First, make sure that you are calling fopen with the "b" modifier ("rb", "wb", e... 2015-09-24, 1160👍, 0💬

How can I read a binary data file properly?
How can I read a binary data file properly? I'm occasionally seeing 0x0a and 0x0d values getting garbled, and I seem to hit EOF prematurely if the data contains the value 0x1a. When you're reading a binary data file, you should specify "rb" mode when calling fopen, to make sure that text file transl... 2015-09-24, 1421👍, 0💬

How can I change their mode to binary?
I'm writing a ``filter'' for binary files, but stdin and stdout are preopened as text streams. How can I change their mode to binary? There is no standard way to do this. On Unix-like systems, there is no text/binary distinction, so there is no need to change the mode. Some MS-DOS compilers supply a... 2015-09-21, 1359👍, 0💬

What is the difference between text and binary I/O?
What is the difference between text and binary I/O? In text mode, a file is assumed to consist of lines of printable characters (perhaps including tabs). The routines in the stdio library (getc, putc, and all the rest) translate between the underlying system's end-of-line representation and the sing... 2015-09-21, 1319👍, 0💬

How can I read/write structures from/to data files?
How can I read/write structures from/to data files? It is relatively straightforward to write a structure out using fwrite: fwrite(&amp;somestruct, sizeof somestruct, 1, fp); and a corresponding fread invocation can read it back in. What happens here is that fwrite receives a pointer to the stru... 2015-09-18, 1403👍, 0💬

How can I write code to conform to these old, binary data file formats?
How can I write code to conform to these old, binary data file formats? It's hard, because of word size and byte order differences, floating-point formats, and structure padding. To get the control you need over these particulars, you may have to read and write things a byte at a time, shuffling and... 2015-09-18, 1359👍, 0💬

Why isnt it being handled properly?
I'm reading strings typed by the user into an array, and then printing them out later. When the user types a sequence like \n, why isn't it being handled properly? Character sequences like \n are interpreted at compile time. When a backslash and an adjacent n appear in a character constant or string... 2015-08-24, 1433👍, 0💬

How can I convert numbers to strings (the opposite of atoi)? Is there an itoa function?
How can I convert numbers to strings (the opposite of atoi)? Is there an itoa function? Just use sprintf: sprintf(string, "%d", number); (Don't worry that sprintf may be overkill, potentially wasting run time or code space; it works well in practice.) You can obviously use sprintf to convert long or... 2015-08-24, 3330👍, 0💬

Does C have anything like the `substr (extract substring) routine present in other languages?
Does C have anything like the `substr (extract substring) routine present in other languages? Not as such. To extract a substring of length LEN starting at index POS in a source string, use something like char dest[LEN+1]; strncpy(dest, &amp;source[POS], LEN); dest[LEN] = '\0'; /* ensure \0 term... 2015-08-19, 1462👍, 0💬

How do I convert a string to all upper or lower case?
How do I convert a string to all upper or lower case? Some libraries have routines strupr and strlwr or strupper and strlower, but these are not Standard or portable. It's a straightforward exercise to write upper/lower-case functions in terms of the toupper and tolower macros in &lt;ctype.h>;(T... 2015-08-19, 1351👍, 0💬

Why do some versions of toupper act strangely if given an upper-case letter?
Why do some versions of toupper act strangely if given an upper-case letter? Why does some code call islower before toupper? In earlier times, toupper was a function-like preprocessor macro and was defined to work only on lower-case letters; it misbehaved if applied to digits, punctuation, or letter... 2015-08-17, 1481👍, 0💬

How can I split up a string into whitespace-separated fields?
How can I split up a string into whitespace-separated fields? How can I duplicate the process by which main() is handed argc and argv? The only Standard function available for this kind of ``tokenizing'' is strtok, although it can be tricky to use and it may not do everything you want it to. (For in... 2015-08-17, 1797👍, 0💬

I need some code to do regular expression and wildcard matching.
I need some code to do regular expression and wildcard matching. Make sure you recognize the difference between: * Classic regular expressions, variants of which are used in such Unix utilities as ed and grep. In regular expressions, a dot . usually matches any single character, and the sequence .* ... 2015-08-12, 1502👍, 0💬

I am trying to sort an array of strings with qsort, using strcmp as the comparison function, but it is not working.
I am trying to sort an array of strings with qsort, using strcmp as the comparison function, but it is not working. By ``array of strings'' you probably mean ``array of pointers to char.'' The arguments to qsort's comparison function are pointers to the objects being sorted, in this case, pointers t... 2015-08-12, 1623👍, 0💬

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