Thread: writing randomly accessed files

How would I be able to write information into a randomly accessed file using data stored in a struct? I am just trying to write a program that will create a file and store test data that will be used later. It seems to work when the user enters the input and I use fscanf with stdin and getting info for each member. Why won't it work when i just try to assign each member a specific value? The int seems to work, but the string is not. This is going to be a randomly accessed file so I can not use fprintf to load the test data because i will not be able to fseek it in a different program and use the struct size/byte locations as reference. If i comment out the string lines, it will compile and save the first set of according to size. I get 2 of the same errors (both are commented below).

p.s. this is most of code, not all.

Code:

struct testinfo {
	int checknum;
	char payto[25];
	double amount;
	char description[35];
};

int main(void)
{
	FILE *filePtr;
	struct testinfo info = {0, "", 0.0, ""};
	int i;
	
	if ((filePtr = fopen("list.dat", "w")) == NULL)
		printf("File could not be opened.\n");
	else {
		for (i = 0; i <= 100; i++)
			fwrite(&info, sizeof(struct testinfo), 1, filePtr);

		info.checknum = 100; 
		info.payto = "Florida Power"; // '=' : left operand must be l-value
		info.amount = 125.00; 
		info.description = "Electricity"; // '=' : left operand must be l-value

		fseek(filePtr, (info.checknum - 100) * sizeof(struct testinfo), SEEK_SET);
		fwrite(&info, sizeof(struct testinfo), 1, filePtr);

Thanks in advanced.

and also for displaying error msgs like this:

Code:

printf("File could not be opened.\n");

You should try using the perror() function.

Thanks a lot.