Thread: Reading a file

I'm new to C programming, and I'm trying to figure out a simple way to read the entire contents of a text file. Is there a way? I have a SQL file that has a lot of SQL code in it that I want to send to MySQL from my C program, but I don't know how to read the entire file.

I guess I read it into a char[] array, but how? I've been looking it up on Google and I even have a book on programming in C, but I'm still confused.


Thanks ahead of time,
Alex.

I've seen those. Why wouldn't I want to read the entire file at once?

If I just take the file in chunks, then I have to make up some way to make sure that I have a full block of SQL code.

Hi,

Try out this piece of code. It should work for you.

Code:

char buf[1000];
FILE *fp;

fp = fopen("myfile.txt","r");

if(fp == NULL)
{
   printf("ERROR: Cannot open file\n");   
}
else
{      
   while(!feof(fp))
   {
           buf = fgetc(fp);
   }
   fclose(fp);
}

I hope that sunny code would throw an error , it can be modified as *(buf+incremental_variable)=fgets(fp)
to hold a character

the following code used to take a whole lot of contents if we know the size of the file ,

Code:

buf=(char *)malloc(SIZE_OF_FILE);
 fread(buf,SIZE_OF_FILE,1,fp);
 printf("buffer: %s\n" ,buf);