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C Program To Read Content of A File and Display It

The document provides code samples to demonstrate reading and writing files in C programming. It includes a program to read the contents of a file and display it, a program to create a new file and write data to it by taking user input, and a program to copy the contents of one file into another file by reading from the first file and simultaneously writing to the second file. The document also includes a short example to print the contents of a file in reverse order.

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C Program To Read Content of A File and Display It

The document provides code samples to demonstrate reading and writing files in C programming. It includes a program to read the contents of a file and display it, a program to create a new file and write data to it by taking user input, and a program to copy the contents of one file into another file by reading from the first file and simultaneously writing to the second file. The document also includes a short example to print the contents of a file in reverse order.

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C Program to Read content of a File and

Display it
Below is a simple program to read the content of any file and then print it on the output
screen.
#include<stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> // for exit() function

int main()
{
char c[1000];
FILE *fptr;

if ((fptr = fopen("studytonight.txt", "r")) == NULL)


{
printf("Error! opening file");
// exit from program if file pointer returns NULL.
exit(1);
}

// read the text until newline


fscanf(fptr,"%[^\n]", c);

printf("Data from the file:\n%s", c);


fclose(fptr);

return 0;
}

C Program to create a File & write Data in


it
Below is a program to create a new file and then storing information in it.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
FILE *fptr;
char name[20];
int age;
float salary;

/* open for writing */


fptr = fopen("emp.txt", "w");

if (fptr == NULL)
{
printf("File does not exist.\n");
return;
}
printf("Enter the name:\n");
scanf("%s", name);
fprintf(fptr, "Name = %s\n", name);

printf("Enter the age:\n");


scanf("%d", &age);
fprintf(fptr, "Age = %d\n", age);

printf("Enter the salary:\n");


scanf("%f", &salary);
fprintf(fptr, "Salary = %.2f\n", salary);

fclose(fptr);
}
C Program to copy content of one File
into another File
We already know how to open a file, read contents of a file and write into a file. So in this
program, we will read from one file and simultaneously write into the other file, till we reach
end of first file.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void main()
{
/*
File_1.txt is the file with content and,
File_2.txt is the file in which content of File_1
will be copied.
*/
FILE *fp1, *fp2;
char ch;
int pos;

if ((fp1 = fopen("File_1.txt", "r")) == NULL)


{
printf("\nFile cannot be opened.");
return;
}
else
{
printf("\nFile opened for copy...\n ");
}
fp2 = fopen("File_2.txt", "w");
fseek(fp1, 0L, SEEK_END); // File pointer at end of file
pos = ftell(fp1);
fseek(fp1, 0L, SEEK_SET); // File pointer set at start
while (pos--)
{
ch = fgetc(fp1); // Copying file character by character
fputc(ch, fp2);
}
fcloseall();
}

a) Create a text file 'input.txt'


b) Print the contents of file in reverse order

Solution:

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
FILE *fp;
char ch;
int i,pos;
fp=fopen("input.txt","r");
if(fp==NULL)
{
printf("File does not exist..");
}
fseek(fp,0,SEEK_END);
pos=ftell(fp);
//printf("Current postion is %d\n",pos);
i=0;
while(i<pos)
{
i++;
fseek(fp,-i,SEEK_END);
//printf("%c",fgetc(fp));
ch=fgetc(fp);
printf("%c",ch);
}
return 0;
}

Output:

Original Content in File

Print content of file in reverse order.

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