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From: bmarcum@iglou.iglou.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: How to write end of file character into file??!
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In article <xsvarshney-0604962038290001@newshub.csu.net>,
S. Varshney <xsvarshney@ccvax.fullerton.edu> wrote:
>
>
>I have the following code to write to a file...
>
>Input of variable is done by:
>
>data_f=fopen("input", "a");
> fprintf(data_f, "%s\n", var1);
>
>Now I'm trying to read this file, using fopen("input","r");
>
>The problem is, I can't seem to get a handle on detecting the eof char...
>so as to be able to printf correctly. Any suggestions on how to write the
>file so that an EOF char is written on the file, so that I can read the
>EOF correctly?
>
Unix doesn't use an EOF character, unless you write something at the end
of the file and look for it when you read the file.
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Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com
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