I opened a file in my main() function like this
FILE *myfile = fopen("myfile.txt","r");
I want to use the file for input in another function called writeData.
How do I pass the file pointer *myfile to writeData?
Im using GCC and get a Segmentation Fault if I pass 'myfile'.
What parameters should the writeData function contain? (I used 'const char *file')
const char *file is wrong
myfile is of type FILE*, so that's your type.
Edit: plus you opened your file as read only, so if you pass it writedata (assuming it DOES write data) you'll get an error
Oh I didnt notice that!
I changed it to 'w'.
Anyway, Im really new to C so can you tell me exactly what I need to use?
Thanx in advance
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Code:size_t writeData(FILE * outputStream, const char * data) { return /* your write function goes here, write 'data' to 'outputStream': eg http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/fwrite.html */ } int main(void) { FILE * myFile; if((myFile = fopen("myfile.txt", "wt")) == NULL) { perror("Failed to open the file"); return 1; } /* write to the file */ writeData(myFile, "hello world"); fclose(myFile); return 0; }
When I use this function, if my 'dest' is dimensioned to 20 (char a[20]) in my main program, everything works fine. However when I try to dimension it to 100 and pass it to INPUT, it doesnt read any characters at all into 'dest', and INPUT returns 0. Im using GCC. Is this a limitation of using console apps in linux or something? Or am I coding wrong, because as far as I can see, I cant find any bugs in this function. I tried using malloc() to allocate a space of memory for 'dest' in main() and then pass it into this function, but it didnt work.Code:int input(char * dest, FILE * inputStream, const char tochar) /* INPUT gets characters from a stream until the character specified in 'tochar' is reached OR until the entire return string 'dest' is filled (does not have space for more characters) Returns the number of characters read from 'inputStream' INPUT could be used to read characters until the end of the line by passing '\n' as tochar */ { char c; int i = 0; int len = strlen(dest); int d = 0; for (d = 0; d != len; d++) // Fill up dest with NULL characters to remove any left over garbage { dest[d] = NULL; } for (i = 0; c != tochar; i++) { c = getc(inputStream); if (c == NULL) break; // Check for END OF FILE if (i != len) // Check to see if the array has space to add another character { if (c != tochar) dest[i] = c; // Add character to position [i] in dest if it != tochar } else { return i; // In this case, INPUT doesnt return everything until 'tochar' b/c dest is } // not long enough } return i; // Return number of characters processed into dest }
you want to check for EOF, not NULLCode:if (c == NULL) break; // Check for END OF FILE
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...tdio/getc.html
From the description of what input is supposed to do I assume that dest could be an unintialized buffer .
Calling len = strlen(dest) would asign a random number to len. You will have to pass the size of the buffer to the input function.
c is not intialized -> the loop may or may not runCode:for (i = 0; c != tochar; i++) { c = getc(inputStream);
Kurt
