fread/fwrite

[empriser]

How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

[Chris Dollin]

empriser wrote:

How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

None.

Don't you have documentation for these functions? Or man pages? Or
access to Google?

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[Barry Schwarz]

On 17 May 2007 00:52:29 -0700, empriser <xu********@gma il.comwrote:

>How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

It depends on how code the fread. If you specify 1 block of n
characters and there is less than n left in the file, then it will
return 0. However, if you specify n blocks of 1 character each, then
it will return the number of blocks read (which will be exactly the
same as the number of characters read).
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[empriser]

On May 17, 8:25 pm, Barry Schwarz <schwa...@doezl .netwrote:

On 17 May 2007 00:52:29 -0700, empriser <xueyunl...@gma il.comwrote:

How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

It depends on how code the fread. If you specify 1 block of n
characters and there is less than n left in the file, then it will
return 0. However, if you specify n blocks of 1 character each, then
it will return the number of blocks read (which will be exactly the
same as the number of characters read).

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Yes my buffer size is n (n 1).
How do I know there are how many bytes in buffer, after last call
fread as if return 0.

[Eric Sosman]

empriser wrote:

On May 17, 8:25 pm, Barry Schwarz <schwa...@doezl .netwrote:

>On 17 May 2007 00:52:29 -0700, empriser <xueyunl...@gma il.comwrote:

>>How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

It depends on how code the fread. If you specify 1 block of n
characters and there is less than n left in the file, then it will
return 0. However, if you specify n blocks of 1 character each, then
it will return the number of blocks read (which will be exactly the
same as the number of characters read).

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Yes my buffer size is n (n 1).
How do I know there are how many bytes in buffer, after last call
fread as if return 0.

fread returns the number of elements that were read and
stored in the buffer. If fread returns 10, it successfully
read and stored 10 elements. If fread returns 0, it read
and stored ... <wait for it... no elements.

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[Barry Schwarz]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:00:26 -0000, empriser <xu********@gma il.com>
wrote:

>On May 17, 8:25 pm, Barry Schwarz <schwa...@doezl .netwrote:

>On 17 May 2007 00:52:29 -0700, empriser <xueyunl...@gma il.comwrote:

>How to use fread/fwrite copy a file.
When reach file's end, fread return 0, I don't konw how many bytes
in buf.

It depends on how code the fread. If you specify 1 block of n
characters and there is less than n left in the file, then it will
return 0. However, if you specify n blocks of 1 character each, then
it will return the number of blocks read (which will be exactly the
same as the number of characters read).

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Yes my buffer size is n (n 1).
How do I know there are how many bytes in buffer, after last call
fread as if return 0.

If you don't show your code, everything is just a guess. As long as
we are guessing, I guess that the number of bytes read is equal to the
square root of the address of fread (when cast to an unsigned short).
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[Peter Nilsson]

Eric Sosman <[e-mail] e:

empriser wrote:

...
Yes my buffer size is n (n 1).
How do I know there are how many bytes in buffer,
after last call fread as if return 0.

fread returns the number of elements that were
read and stored in the buffer. If fread returns 10,
it successfully read and stored 10 elements. If
fread returns 0, it read and stored ... <wait for
it... no elements.

In other words, code as...

static char buf[1024];
size_t r = fread(buf, 1, sizeof buf, fp);

....rather than...

static char buf[1024];
size_t r = fread(buf, sizeof buf, 1, fp);

Assuming no read errors, if there are 123 characters
left in the stream, the former will return 0 into r,
whereas the latter will return 123. Both calls will
read the same number of characters though.

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Peter

[empriser]

OK I write a easy program to show it.
fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );

If I don't change to fread( buf, 1, sizeof(buf), rf ); how to copy a
file.

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
int i;
char buf[1024];
FILE *rf, *wf;

rf = fopen( argv[1], "r" );
wf = fopen( argv[2], "w" );

i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
while( i 0 ){
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );
i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
}

fclose( rf );
fclose( wf );
return 0;
}

[Barry Schwarz]

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:04:46 -0000, empriser <xu********@gma il.com>
wrote:

>OK I write a easy program to show it.
fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );

If I don't change to fread( buf, 1, sizeof(buf), rf ); how to copy a
file.

By changing fread to fgetc and fwrite to fputc.

What is with the spate of "I've got this broken code I don't want to
change. How do I make it work?" messages. The only way to fix broken
code is to change it. It you don't change it, it remains broken.

If I insist on putting water in my gas tank, how do I get my car to
run?

>
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
int i;
char buf[1024];
FILE *rf, *wf;

rf = fopen( argv[1], "r" );
wf = fopen( argv[2], "w" );

i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
while( i 0 ){
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );
i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
}

fclose( rf );
fclose( wf );
return 0;
}

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[Joe Wright]

empriser wrote:

OK I write a easy program to show it.
fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );

If I don't change to fread( buf, 1, sizeof(buf), rf ); how to copy a
file.

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
int i;
char buf[1024];
FILE *rf, *wf;

rf = fopen( argv[1], "r" );
wf = fopen( argv[2], "w" );

i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
while( i 0 ){
fwrite( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, wf );
i = fread( buf, sizeof(buf), 1, rf );
}

fclose( rf );
fclose( wf );
return 0;
}

Maybe this way..

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
FILE *in, *out;
char buf[100];
size_t size;

if ((in = fopen("cp.c", "rb")) == NULL)
puts("Can't open cp.c"), exit(EXIT_FAILU RE);

if ((out = fopen("cp.x", "wb")) == NULL)
puts("Can't make cp.x"), exit(EXIT_FAILU RE);

while ((size = fread(buf, 1, sizeof buf, in)) 0)
fwrite(buf, 1, size, out);

fclose(in);
fclose(out);
return 0;
}

Note that cp.c is the name of this source file.

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