C and C based languages - File Handling

C and C based languages module C210

File Handling

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module C210. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to Program in C, Learning to program in C++, Programming in C, C and C++ Programming

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New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more

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low level file handling with open

/* A file opened with 'open' is accessed in a binary mode ... "read X bytes" stuff. Note that the buffer is one character longer that the maximum read ...

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=c210/filesinc.c [code sample]

Reading and writing files in C

In C you can use either open or fopen to open a file. open is what you would use for binary files, and you have plenty of low level controls; use fopen ...

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How to open, read, write, and close files in C; how to check whether or not a file exists, and how to find out the names of all the files (and subdirectories too) in a directory.

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to Program in C, Learning to program in C++, Programming in C, C and C++ Programming

Examples from our training material

cmelk.c	Text file read and write
deardir.c	Parsing a directory
ffiles.c	fopen to access files at a higher level
filesinc.c	low level file handling with open
lunches.c	Reading a file and tokenising into a structure

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

stdio.h and other headers.
Files and other streams.
Opening and closing.
Reading and writing.
Checking files and directories.

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