C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide (3rd Edition)

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The Absolute Minimum

The goal of this chapter was to show you how to create, read, and write sequential

files. Your C program must open a file before data can be written to or read from the

file. When your program is done with a file, the program should close the file.

When reading from a file, you must check for the end-of-file condition to ensure that

you don’t try to read past the end of the file. The feof() function is a built-in C

function that you use to check for the end of the file. Key concepts from this chapter

include:

• Store long-term data in data files.


• Open a file with fopen() before you use the file.


• Always close a file with fclose() when you’re done.


• Don’t read from a file without checking for feof() because you might have
  previously read the last line in the file.


• Don’t use the filename when you open a file. Use the file pointer that you connected
  to the file with fopen().


• Don’t forget that the file pointer goes at the beginning of fprintf() and that
  fputs() requires a file pointer at the end of its argument list.