Thread: Question about fputs

Sure. You just change the second argument. For example, fputs("slappy", stdout); will write to the standard output device, whereas fputs("slappy", fp); will write to whatever fp points to.

Code:

{
  int i;

  for(i = 0;i < 30;++i)
    fputc(' ', fp);
  fputs("slappy", fp);
}

Or you can just prepend 30 spaces to the string. Or you can put a 30-character string filled with spaces in the file before writing "slappy". There's a dozen different ways to do it.

You can't just use fprint with a width specifier instead of using fputs?

Code:

// Write "slappy" with 30 spaces in front of it.
fprintf(fp,"%*s",30+strlen("slappy"),"slappy");

I'm just saying, is it a requirement that you use fputs and can't use fprintf?

sprintf is your friend. Followed by a simple:

Code:

fputs( buf, fp );

Assuming of course that you don't simply just use fprintf in the first place.

Quzah.