How to print text from a file to the screen

[Chrisboggis]

Hi everyone,

I've been fiddling through some tutorials about printing the contents of a file to the screen but when I try using commands they get stuck.

I put this code in but it wont have it

FILE *fp;
fp=fopen("file1.txt","r");
fprintf(fp,"Contents of the file:\n");

The file1.txt is stored on a server and im using unix terminal.

I don't get a compiler error but the contents will not appear on screen.

It is in a program that works without printing the file contents so I have included everything else necessary I just need to correct these lines of code!


Thanks for the help!

[tabstop]

That is exactly what you want. You are not printing anything to the screen, so you will see nothing on the screen. If you want to see something, you should print something to the screen instead of to a file.

[Chrisboggis]

Yeh I'm trying to take the contents of the file and print them to the screen. What commands do I need to use instead?

The reason why I have done this is I have drawn a diagram using symbols in a text file and if I insert them into the program code it will cause a huge mess.
Cheers

[Zach_the_Lizard]

fprintf(), IIRC, writes everything to a file. If you want to read from a file, I believe you want to use fgets().