Thread: FILE problem, again. Help!

Here's the problem. I open the non-text file, then what I want to do is to check how many entries saved I already have so that I know where I will save my next entry on the said file. Here's what I did:

typedef structUserType arrUser[10];

if ((pUser = fopen("file.dat", "wb")) != NULL)
{
while (fread (&aUser[i], sizeof(structUserType), 1, pUser))
i++;
//What this supposedly does it to check how many saved entries are already in the file. The condition will return a 0 if the pointer is at the eof already//

scanf ("%s", aUser[i].strName);
//Here lies the problem because it seems that the counter isn't moving. So when I do this://

fwrite(&aUser[i], sizeof(structUserType), 1, pUser);

it keeps on overwriting on that same array of structure. Help!!!
So where did I go wrong? I'm stuck at this part forever!

You can find out how many structures are on your file by using ftell() to get the number of bytes in your file and then divide that by the size of the structure ie:

fseek(pUser, 0L, SEEK_END);
temp = ftell(pUser);
result = temp / sizeof(arruser);

ftell returns a long int.

just a thought but would it be better just to open the file in append mode when you want to add a new structure.

Ey, thanks! I'll try that one.

You can also run a check on the file contents with

iRemainder = temp % sizeof(structUserType);
if(iRemainder!=0)
{
//error
}