Append to File

[Jonathan Shan]

Hello everybody,

For some strange reason my output to file keeps writing to the top
instead of bottom.

Here is the code that exhibits the problem:

void printfile(int i)
{
FILE* write;
write = fopen("write.txt", "a+");
fprintf(write, "%i \n", i);
}
int main()
{

int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10 ; i++)
{
printfile(i);
}
return 0;
}

The output is:
9
8
7
....
instead of the "expected"
0
1
2
....

I already realize one solution is to reverse the for loop..

Jonathan Shan

[Tak-Shing Chan]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Jonathan Shan wrote:

Hello everybody,

For some strange reason my output to file keeps writing to the top
instead of bottom.

Here is the code that exhibits the problem:

void printfile(int i)
{
FILE* write;
write = fopen("write.txt", "a+");
fprintf(write, "%i \n", i);
}
int main()
{

int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10 ; i++)
{
printfile(i);
}
return 0;
}

The output is:
9
8
7
...
instead of the "expected"
0
1
2
...

I already realize one solution is to reverse the for loop..

Jonathan Shan

You should close the file before reopening it.

Tak-Shing

[Kenneth Brody]

Jonathan Shan wrote:

>
Hello everybody,

For some strange reason my output to file keeps writing to the top
instead of bottom.

Here is the code that exhibits the problem:

void printfile(int i)
{
FILE* write;
write = fopen("write.txt", "a+");
fprintf(write, "%i \n", i);
}

You create a new FILE* each time you call printfile(), and you
never close them.

int main()
{

int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10 ; i++)
{
printfile(i);
}
return 0;
}

The output is:
9
8
7
...
instead of the "expected"
0
1
2
...

I already realize one solution is to reverse the for loop..

What you have done is open the "write.txt" file 10 times, and
written the numbers to each separately buffered stream. When
main() returns, the C runtime library closes the files that you
have left open, in some order known only to the compiler writers.

>From the behavior, it appears that it closes them in the reverse

order you opened them, causing that stream's output to be appended
to the file.

The solution is to either fclose() the file in printfile(), or
only open the file once.

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