Thread: Horizontal output

name.txt

I
k
e
S
u
e
L
e
o


I hope I have not overstayed my welcome but I refuse to take the easy way out, I want to do all I can with C for as long as possible. How can I get the above text to print to screen like below and save it to a file with a difference name?


There may be better ways but I would like to know how this work because this is one of those time that I can’t even get lucky to get (%a,b, …) to do anything else except showing \n.


One other thing; how would I put each character into char buffers like in the code below? Even if its not needed here based on the code, I just want to how it is done.


new.txt

Ike
Sue
Leo

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>


#define SEEK_SET 0
#define SEEK_CUR 1
#define SEEK_END 2


int main() {


char buf1[1]; char buf2[1]; char buf3[1]; char buf4[1];
char cuf1[1]; char cuf2[1]; char cuf3[1]; char cuf4[1];
char duf1[1]; char duf2[1]; char duf3[1]; char duf4[1];


FILE *fptr, *fptw;
      fptr=fopen("name.txt","r");
      fptw=fopen("new.txt","w");


        fseek(fptr, 0, SEEK_SET);   int a = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 2, SEEK_SET);   int b = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 4, SEEK_SET);   int c = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 5, SEEK_SET);   int d = fgetc(fptr);     // new line


        fseek(fptr, 6, SEEK_SET);   int e = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 8, SEEK_SET);   int f = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 10, SEEK_SET);  int g = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 11, SEEK_SET);  int h = fgetc(fptr);     // new line


        fseek(fptr, 12, SEEK_SET);  int i = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 14, SEEK_SET);  int j = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 16, SEEK_SET);  int k = fgetc(fptr);
        fseek(fptr, 17, SEEK_SET);  int l = fgetc(fptr);


        printf(":  %c\n", a);
        printf(":  %c\n", b);
        printf(":  %c\n", c);
        printf(":: %c\n", d);
        printf(":  %c\n", e);
        printf(":  %c\n", f);
        printf(":  %c\n", g);
        printf(":: %c\n", h);
        printf(":  %c\n", i);
        printf(":  %c\n", j);
        printf(":  %c\n", k);
        printf(":: %c\n", l);


//  putchar(fgetc(fh));
//  fgets(c);
//  fprintf(fptr,"d", a);
//  fprintf(buf1,"d", a);


    fclose(fptr);
    fclose(fptw);


    return 0 ;
}