Thread: file handling

Our lecturer gave us a program to look over in the holidays. Unfortunately I think he has forgotten we haven’t done any file handling in C yet. I’ve had a look around on some other websites to see if I can self teach myself some stuff. In my opinion I think from what I have picked up this piece of code should work? I’m trying to add a name to a txt file that already has some data in it …

From the examples I read online they were only printing text already present in the source code into the text file. But I am assuming that it’s possible to add the content of a variable to a text file?

When I run the program I enter a name and then press enter and the program closes. When I check the text file nothing has changed at all. Please help

Chris

Code:

void add_student()
{
     char student_name[25];
      printf("\nPlease enter a students name to add them to the data base.");
      scanf("%24s",&student_name);

                                FILE *fp;
                                fp = fopen("collegerecord.txt","a");
                                fprintf(fp,"s%",student_name);
                                fclose(fp);
 
     //puts("Function associated with menu option 'b' called sucessfully");
     //getch();
}