Question About Files

Hello everyone!
I have a question about writing a string to a file. When I try to pass a string as an input to a file, there always occurs a "new line" and I'm not able to destroy it; with this, I get a wrong counted number of words/sentences in a file. My question is how can I destroy that new line?
Thanks in advance and happy to join this community.

Does something like this create a newline?

Code:

fprintf(somefile, "Some line without a newline");

Yes.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	FILE *f = fopen("bleh.txt", "w");
	if(f != NULL)
	{
		fprintf(f, "Line without a newline.");
		
		fclose(f);
		return 0;
	}
	return 1;
}

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	int c;
	FILE *f = fopen("bleh.txt", "rb");
	
	if(f != NULL)
	{
		while((c = fgetc(f)) != EOF)
		{
			printf("[%c] [%d]\n", c, c);
		}
		fclose(f);
		return 0;
	}
	return 1;
}

Output of the 2nd program after running the first:

Code:

[L] [76]
[i] [105]
[n] [110]
[e] [101]
[ ] [32]
[w] [119]
[i] [105]
[t] [116]
[h] [104]
[o] [111]
[u] [117]
[t] [116]
[ ] [32]
[a] [97]
[ ] [32]
[n] [110]
[e] [101]
[w] [119]
[l] [108]
[i] [105]
[n] [110]
[e] [101]
[.] [46]

I don't see any newline chars there.

Sorry about my yes.
However, with these codes I always get a new line whatever I do:

Code:

void Function_2(FILE *fPtr, char *Cont, int a, char *Nick)
{
     char StringtoStore[1000000];
     int answer, i=0;
     char ch;
     fPtr = fopen(Nick, "r");
     printf("Please enter a string to store in the file %s\n", Nick);
     if(fgets(Cont, a, fPtr) != NULL)
     {          
             printf("The file contains data!!! Do you want to overwrite?(1 for YES/0 for NO): ");
             scanf("%d", &answer);
             if(answer == 1)
             {
                       fPtr = fopen(Nick, "w");
                       while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF)
                       {
                                StringtoStore[i]=ch;
                                i++;
                       }
                       StringtoStore[i]='\0';
                       fputs(StringtoStore, fPtr);
                       fclose(fPtr);
             }
             else
             {
                       printf("No overwriting will be executed");
                       fclose(fPtr);
             }
     }
     else
     {
             fPtr = fopen(Nick, "w");
             while ((ch = getchar()) != EOF)
             {
                   StringtoStore[i]=ch;
                   i++;
             }
             StringtoStore[i]='\0';
             fputs(StringtoStore, fPtr);
             fclose(fPtr);
     }
}

fputs() automatically appends a newline. Don't use it if you don't want a newline. Use something like fprintf().

Thanks for your response
But how can I write the whole string into a file using fprintf?

This:

Code:

fputs(StringtoStore, fPtr);

Would become something like this:

Code:

fprintf(fPtr, "%s", StringtoStore);

Thank you so much MacGyver! But I still get a new line The program also says that there's data in the file altough there is nothing in it :S

Originally Posted by Actor

Hello everyone!
I have a question about writing a string to a file. When I try to pass a string as an input to a file, there always occurs a "new line" and I'm not able to destroy it; with this, I get a wrong counted number of words/sentences in a file. My question is how can I destroy that new line?
Thanks in advance and happy to join this community.

The fprintf() function doesn't add a newline char, so if you have a newline, then the newline was a part of your string.

The simple answer is not to "destroy" the newline char, it's to fix your logic of counting the words/sentences, so that the newline is not a problem.

Just treat the newline char like you would another space between letters, or like a comma. It doesn't increase the count of words, and it doesn't increase the count of sentences. It just is a nothing for you program's logic to handle, as far as counting goes.

And Welcome to the Forum!

It's not a part of my string actually, as you can see it in the codes too.
My program sees my file never empty even though I erase all the data in it :S That's what I've noticed and don't know the reason.

Originally Posted by Actor

It's not a part of my string actually, as you can see it in the codes too.
My program sees my file never empty even though I erase all the data in it :S That's what I've noticed and don't know the reason.

Look again at your computer - there is no eraser on it.

You can over-write data, but you can't "erase" it. Files consist of other info, which lists it's name, and it's several attributes, as well. This is all part of the file "header".

You can "erase" all you want - the file header will remain until the file is over-written, whether the file has data in it, or not. A file with a size of zero bytes, still has a header. After the file has been marked as "deleted", then the file header will still exist, but the first byte of the file header will mark it as "deleted", and you won't see it listed in your list of files.

For the life of me, I have no idea why and what you're trying to do with newlines. Are you discriminating against them, kind sir?

Thanks for the response.

You're probably storing a newline in StringtoStore when the user presses enter at the commandline. Check for '\n' as well as EOF in your while condition.