um can´t understand why this code isn´t working...

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stslib.h>

int main (void){


char ch[20];
FILE *fp;

if ((fp=fopen("./test.txt","w+"))==NULL)
{
          fprintf(stderr,"cant open the fil!\n");
          exit(1);
}

fprintf(fp,"text\n text\n");

while (ch != EOF)
{
fgets(ch,sizeof(ch),fp);
fprintf(stderr,"%s",ch);
}

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>>#include <stslib.h>
hmm, what is this? maybe stdlib?

>>if ((fp=fopen("./test.txt","w+"))==NULL)
you sure you're open the correct path, maybe you mean ../test.txt?

>>while (ch != EOF)
you bett'a do something like this:

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while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)

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>>fprintf(stderr,"%s",ch);
sure you're writing in the correct stream? :) really mean to print in stderr or you want stdout?

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>>#include <stslib.h>
hmm, what is this? maybe stdlib?

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thats just a typo I dont write the code on the same comp as I post this on sicne it doesn´t have any interent in the real code it´s right.

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>>if ((fp=fopen("./test.txt","w+"))==NULL)
you sure you're open the correct path, maybe you mean ../test.txt?

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nope I know I open the right path since I have done it be4 :)

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>>while (ch != EOF)
you bett'a do something like this:

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while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)

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I`ll try that :)

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>>fprintf(stderr,"%s",ch);
sure you're writing in the correct stream? :) really mean to print in stderr or you want stdout?

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I hope so my book tells me that thats the stream I should write to if I whant it to print to the screen...

thx a ton for all the help :)

>>I hope so my book tells me that thats the stream I should write to if I whant it to print to the screen...

I don't think so... your book I'm quite sure explained you that you should write to stderr when an error occur, like you did when opening the file, to print to the screen, use the stdout stream.

oh I see...cool, actouly my book doesn´t tell me what stderr does it just tells me to use that when I test my files...so I kinda figurd I should use it like print to screen. thx for clearafeing this for me :)

If you're trying to read back what you've just written, you'll have to "rewind" the file pointer first of all.

After the fprintf(), the file pointer will be positioned at the end-of-file - just after the string you've written. Insert an ftell() just after the fprintf() to see the actual offset.

To rewind, you'll need an fseek().

e.g.

x = fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_SET);

assuming you want to rewind to the BOF.

hth

ah that makes sense and I have some vage memory of my book telling me this.... thx a ton for your help :) oh and what kind of variabel should x be? int?

int is ok, as far as I know, fseek returns int.

Yeah, fseek() returns 0 (zero) for success and -1 on error.

You *really* should get into the habit of checking return values. Something like:

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if (fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_SET) != 0) {
    // oops
    perror("fseek");
    fprintf(stderr, "could not seek\n");
}

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... or some custom error handling.

hth

I tryed it to day, I didn´t have to use any variabel at all :)