[Dev-C++] I´d like to know your hints about file manipulations

[André M. B. <and...@su...>]

Dear users,

   I like this list because we can ask questions
regarding not only about Dev-cpp, like the one
that I present to you now.

   Consider the following restrictions:
   -only ANSI-C commands;
   -not C++;
   -for file manipulation, only the following
    commands: fopen(), fscanf(), fgets(),
              feof(), and fclose();

   Inside this scenario, people can easly work
read and write files containing integers and floating
point numbers. Situations like names, sex (male/female),
option (yes/no), etc, can be replaced by integer codes.

   My question is:
   What is your style to work with strings, i.e., names
for example: for a program that expects to read a name from
a file (with spaces, variable size, etc), do you previosly
indicate a fixed number of characters (40, for example) and
use fgets twice (to read the 40 characters and read the '\n')?

Thanks a lot in advance
André