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fflush(myFile)
Hi Guys,
After getting some brilliant replies about fflush(stdout), I would like to get some details about flushing a file.
When Should I fflush a file when writing stream to a file when I use one of the functions, fputc , fputs, fprintf, fwrite...... ??
Many thanks for your help!!!
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Frequently Quite Prolix
In general, you don't need to worry about flushing files. Files are automatically flushed when the buffer gets full, or when you close the file with fclose().
You may want to flush the file if you know your program is going to crash, for example, and some data in the buffer might be lost. Or if two programs are accessing the same file and the data needs to be put into the file. Or whatever -- but you don't have to flush files that often.
Also see this page: cpwiki.sf.net/fflush
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