RE: [Dev-C++] how to use strings

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Michael C
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:37 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] how to use strings
> 3) fprintf() and fscanf() do not move the file position and I 
> can't remember how to do this. So another call to fprintf() 

Of course they do. There are thousands of many ways to move the file
position, fseek(), fread(), ....

> will not read the stringified number on the next line. I 
> thought I could use:
>         'fseek (fhandle, len, SEEK_CUR);' where len is the 
> returned value from a successful call to fprintf()

The strategy is a mistake.

>     However, this doesn't work. Instead I prefer to use:
> 
>      int c;
>      while ((c = fgetc (fhandle)) != EOF)
>      {
>            fputc (c, stdout);
>      }
> 

This works too.

> Any comments?
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Michael


Ioannis

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