Help please, storing my FILE

[inmaterichard]

i have got a program which loads a file and reads it in char buy char and then print it.

does anyone no how to change this program so it will store the char's into an array as they are being read.

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
    
        
        FILE *file = fopen( "key.txt", "r" );

        
        if ( file == 0 )
        {
            printf( "Could not open file\n" );
        }
        else 
        {
            int x;
            
            while  ( ( x = fgetc( file ) ) != EOF )
            {
                printf( "%c", x );
				
            }
        }
		printf("\n");
        
		if 
		
		
		
		fclose( file );
    
}

Any help welcome

[BooBoo808]

Just to get you started, you can do this. However, be careful not to overflow your buffers, as this below isn't the best way to do this, but it gives you and idea. It uses a fixed array, but I didn't think your question concerned memory allocation.

Anyway, this simply saves everything into a buffer, then prints the buffer.

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX_BUF 2048

int main ()
{
        FILE *file = fopen( "test.c", "r" );

        char array[ MAX_BUF ];  //a buffer to store up to 2048 characters

        if ( file == 0 )
        {
            printf( "Could not open file\n" );
        }
        else 
        {
            int x;


	    int num = 0;
            while  ( ( x = fgetc( file ) ) != EOF )
            {
                // printf( "%c", x );

                 // if there is rat least room for an ending NULL byte, then store the character
		if( num < (MAX_BUF-1) ) {
		  array[num++] = x;
		}
				
            }
        }
         //now dump the buffer to the stdout
	printf("other buffer: \n%s", array );
	printf("\n");
        

		
	fclose( file );
    
}

Hope this gets you going. Then from the looks of it your next task is to read that buffer back into another file. I'll leave you to it.

[dwks]

Be warned that that code will probably segfault if the file could not be opened. Moving the last three lines into the else block would solve that problem.

Also, I don't see a NULL being stored in array anywhere.