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JUSTICE BASHEER AHMED SAYEED COLLEGE FOR

WOMEN
(Autonomous) Afternoon Session Chennai 18.
S.I.E.T.

Prepared by
M. MINU MEERA, Assistant Professor
A. JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Assistant
Professor

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER


,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department SCIENCE 1
of Computer Science
• Data can be stored on the disk and read whenever necessary, without
destroying the data
• C uses a structure called FILE(defined in stdio.h) to store the attributes of
a file.
• FILE-Place on the disk where a group of related data is stored
• C supports a number of functions that have the ability to perform basic
file operations
-Naming a file
-Opening a file
-Reading data from a file
-Writing data to a file
-Closing a file
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 2
of Computer Science
• C provides several different file operations
• fopen-open a file- specify how its opened (read/write) and type
(binary/text)
• fclose-close an opened file
• fread- read from a file
• fwrite- write to a file
• fseek/fsetpos - move a file pointer to somewhere in a file.
• ftell/fgetpos - tell you where the file pointer is located.

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 3


of Computer Science
• Writing mode : if file already exists then contents are deleted, – else
new file with specified name created
• Appending mode : if file already exists then file opened with contents
safe – else new file created
• Reading mode : if file already exists then opened with contents safe –
else error occurs.
• Additional modes :
– r+ open to beginning for both reading/writing
– w+ same as w except both for reading and writing
– a+ same as ‘a’ except both for reading and writing

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 4


of Computer Science
• Syntax :
FILE *fp; /*variable fp is pointer to type FILE*/
fp= fopen(“filename”, “mode”); /*opens file with name filename , assigns identifier to
fp*/
• Fp
– contains all information about file
– Communication link between system and program
• The file mode tells C how the program will use the file
• The filename indicates the system name and location for the file.
• We assign the return value of fopen to our pointer variable:
fp= fopen(“MYFILE.TXT”, “w”);
fp= fopen(“A:\\MYFILE.TXT”, “w”);

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 5


of Computer Science
• When we finish with a mode, we need to close the file before ending the
program or beginning another mode with that same file.
• • To close a file, we use fclose and the pointer variable:
fclose(spData);
• Example:
FILE *p1;
p1 = fopen(“INPUT.txt”, “r”);
……..
……..
fclose(p1);
• pointer can be reused after closing
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 6
of Computer Science
• C provides several different functions for reading/writing
• getc() –read a character
• putc() – write a character
• fprintf() – write set of data values
• fscanf() –read set of data values
• getw() –read integer
• putw() – write integer

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 7


of Computer Science
• Handle one character at a time like getchar() and putchar()
• syntax: putc(c,fp1);
– c : a character variable
– fp1 : pointer to file opened with mode w
• syntax: c = getc(fp2);
– c : a character variable
– fp2 : pointer to file opened with mode r
• file pointer moves by one character position after every getc()
and putc()
• getc() returns end-of-file marker EOF when file end reached
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 8
of Computer Science
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 9
of Computer Science
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 10
of Computer Science
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 11
of Computer Science
• fread()
• Declaration:
fread(void *ptr, size, n, FILE *stream);
• fread reads a specified number of equal-sized data items from an input stream into a block.
– ptr = Points to a block into which data is read
– size = Length of each item read, in bytes
– n = Number of items read
– stream=file pointer
• Example :
char a[10]={'1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','a'};
FILE *fs; fs=fopen("Project.txt","w");
fwrite(a,1,10,fs);
fclose(fs)

06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 12


of Computer Science
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 13
of Computer Science
06/22/24 Presenter Name: M.MINU MEERA ,A.JUNAITHA BARVEEN, Department 14
of Computer Science

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