EOF character

[Lew Pitcher]

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Hi,

my text file contains many lines of text, some of the text contains EOF
character appended at the end of the text.

if I use:
while (fgets(buffstr, sizeof(buffstr), in_ptr)!=NULL), it will only reach
the first text that contains the EOF character, not to the end of the file.

How can run through the whole file to the end instead, in order to do some
own filtering process?

Open the file in binary mode

file = fopen("filename","rb");

Thanks.

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[Magix]

Hi,

my text file contains many lines of text, some of the text contains EOF
character appended at the end of the text.

if I use:
while (fgets(buffstr, sizeof(buffstr), in_ptr)!=NULL), it will only reach
the first text that contains the EOF character, not to the end of the file.

How can run through the whole file to the end instead, in order to do some
own filtering process?

Thanks.

 

[Christian Staudenmayer]

The fgets() function is used for dealing with textfiles. What you want is the read() function (used together with open()), and you want to supply it with the "b" option for binary (see the manpage of read() for details).

Greetings, Chris

 

[Christian Staudenmayer]

Oops, I've got that all wrong. My bad, it's 3 AM.

Greetings, Chris.

 

[Magix]

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Open the file in binary mode

file = fopen("filename","rb");



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Lew Pitcher

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Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
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Thanks.

 

[Martin Ambuhl]

The fgets() function is used for dealing with textfiles. What you
want is the read() function (used together with open()), and you want

^^^^ ^^^^
You misspelled both fread() and fopen()

to supply it with the "b" option for binary (see the manpage of

^^^^^^^
You misspelled "your documentation"

read() for details).

^^^^
Again, misspelling fread()