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From: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz (Jonathan Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to write end of file character into file??!
Date: 11 Apr 1996 09:08:25 +1200
Organization: Pinnacle Software Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In <xsvarshney-0604962038290001@newshub.csu.net> xsvarshney@ccvax.fullerton.edu (S. Varshney) writes:
>
>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?
Check out fscanf(3). Check its return code against <stdio.h>'s EOF value.
"UNIX don't need no steenkin' EOF character"
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