C file handling

Hello friends. I'm a beginner in C programming, and I have a question related to dealing with files. In the following piece of code, I'm reading two numbers from a file and saving both, together with their sum, in another file.

My question is: why is it that the following loop works?

Code:

  fscanf(arq, "%d%d", &v1, &v2);
  while(!feof(arq))
    {
      sum = v1 + v2;
      FILE *fp = fopen("e79_resultado.txt", "a");
      fprintf(fp, "%d\t%d\t%d\n", v1, v2, soma);
      fclose(fp);
      fscanf(arq, "%d%d", &v1, &v2);
    }

whereas the loop below does not produce the expected result?

Code:

  while(!feof(arq))
    {
      fscanf(arq, "%d%d", &v1, &v2);      
      sum = v1 + v2;
      FILE *fp = fopen("e79_resultado.txt", "a");
      fprintf(fp, "%d\t%d\t%d\n", v1, v2, soma);
      fclose(fp);
    }

Why do I have to read the information once outside the loop to make it work? Aren't they supposed to be the same thing?

Thanks in advance.

You should not be using feof to control a loop in that way as feof only returns a true value after an attempted read has detected that the end of file condition has been reached. Furthermore, it does not make sense to open and close the same file in the loop body when you are going to append to the file anyway. I would expect something along the lines of:

Code:

FILE *fp = fopen("e79_resultado.txt", "a");
if (fp)
{
    while (fscanf(arq, "%d %d", &v1, &v2) == 2)
    {
        sum = v1 + v2;
        fprintf(fp, "%d\t%d\t%d\n", v1, v2, sum);
    }
    fclose(fp);
}

Because C cannot look into the future to know that the next input function will hit the end of the file.

FAQ > Why it's bad to use feof() to control a loop - Cprogramming.com

Thank you very much for you help.