Thread: Standard Input

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    Standard Input

    I am having issue reading from standard input. In other words I want to run my program like: ./WordCount < Sample.txt

    Here is my code:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    
    int main(){
    
    
    FILE * file;
    char filename[1000], c;
    printf("Enter filename to read\n");
    scanf("%s", filename);
    file = fopen (filename, "r");
    if (file == NULL) {
    printf("Invalid File\n");
    exit(0);
    }
    c = fgetc(file);
    while (c != EOF){
    printf("%c", c);
    c = fgetc(file);
    }
    fclose(file);
    return(0);
    }
    I have been looking for hours and tried many options. Maybe I was not looking in the right place. I am not sure what I need to change in my code in order to read from standard input. I know that scanf reads from stdin but I want to use the redirection from a file command when running the program.

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    Tips for debugging..

    1 - Can you open and close the file without an error when you manually put the file name in your code? Does the file exist?
    i.e.
    Code:
    ...=fopen("c:\\test.txt", "r");
    2 - Can you read one char from the file and print it?

    3 - Can you make a loop from step 2?
    Fact - Beethoven wrote his first symphony in C

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