Reading the First Character of the Last Line

[Ti22]

Hi, all

I have a question regarding reading files

Once I get the code to open the file how can I get it to scan right to the first character of the last line of the .txt file?

thanx

[Prelude]

The only portable way is to read the file until you get to the last line:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main ( void )
{
  char buf[BUFSIZ];
  FILE *in = fopen ( "test.txt", "r" );

  if ( in == NULL )
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  while ( fgets ( buf, sizeof buf, in ) != NULL )
    ;
  printf ( "The last line is \"%s\"\n", buf );
  printf ( "The first character of the last line is '%c'\n", buf[0] );

  return 0;
}