Doubt in concatenating contents of two text files in C program

[umaguptan]

Hi i wrote the following program for concatenating two files.

But if the contents are as follows:

a.txt:
hi

b.txt:
all

My program concatenates like this:

hi
all

But i need it like

hi all

/*
* Filename :concatenateInFirstFile.c
* Author :Uma S G
* Description :Concatenate given two files in First File
*/
#include <stdio.h>
/* MACRO DEFINITIONS */
#define MAX_LEN 1024
#define NAME_SIZE 15

/*
* Function :main
* Description :First entry point to program
* Arguments :None
*
*/
int
main() {
/* variable declaration */
char acBuff[MAX_LEN];
char acFirstFile[NAME_SIZE], acSecondFile[NAME_SIZE];
FILE *fp1;
FILE *fp2;

/* Getting files to be conctenated */

printf("\n Enter the First File Name :\t");
gets(acFirstFile);
printf("\n Enter The second File Name :\t");
gets(acSecondFile);

/* opening file for reading */
fp2 = fopen(acSecondFile, "r");
if (fp2 == NULL) {
printf("\n Unable to open the file %s for reading!!...", acSecondFile);
return (1);
}
while (fgets(acBuff, MAX_LEN, fp2) != NULL) {
/* opening file for appending */
fp1 = fopen(acFirstFile, "a");
if (fp1 == NULL) {
printf("\n Unable to open the file %s for reading!!...", acFirstFile);
return (1);
}

fputs(acBuff, fp1);
}
/* closing files */
fclose(fp1);
fclose(fp2);
return (0);
}


Please help me with this?

[nacho4d]

i might be wrong but, ...
first : it is not necessary to open acFirstFile every time you want to write it, it should be enough to open it before the while loop
once you open it, make you deleted the new line character "\n" before start appending

and please intend your source , it will make it easier to read

[nacho4d]

I compiled your source and I have to tell you... the problem you are trying to solve is because your file a.txt should have a "\n" new line character before the EOF . so, in that case you can use fseek() to move inside the file (move one 1 bite from the end of file in backwards direction if the last character is "\n")
I am not sure if it is 1 bite but you can use something like sizeof('/n');

[Elysia]

You need to use code tags for code.
What you should do is read the contents of file 1 using fgets, strip the newline at the end of the buffer and write it to the file. Then read the contents of the second file and write it to the file and you're done.
And don't ever use gets. Always use fgets. That includes reading input from the user.

I am not sure if it is 1 bite but you can use something like sizeof('/n');

Btw, "bite" is an entirely different word! It's byte.
And sizeof('/n') won't work. '/n' != '\n'.

[zacs7]

No point anyway, sizeof(char) is always going to be 1.

[nacho4d]

sorry for the "bite" mistake ... hahaha