Writing into and reading from a text file in C

We use fprintf() and fscanf() functions to write into the file and read from file respectively. fprintf()  writes the data to the text file and fscanf() reads the data from from file. The following example illustrates the concept….

Writing into the text file

#include

#include

int main(){

    FILE *fp;

    struct emp{

        char name[40];

        int age;

        float bs;

    };

    struct emp e;

    //opening file in writing mode

    //this code creates a file named employ.dat if

    //it is not created or writes on the file if it

    //is already created.

    fp = fopen("employ.dat","w");

    if(fp == NULL){ //if file is not opened

        puts("Cannot open file");

        exit(1);

    }

    printf("\nEnter name, age and basic salary: ");

    scanf("%s %d %f", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs);

    //writes name age and basic salary to the file

    fprintf(fp, "%s %d %f\n", e.name, e.age, e.bs);

    fclose(fp); //close the file

    return 0;

}

Reading from the file

#include

#include

int main(){

    FILE *fp;

    struct emp{

        char name[40];

        int age;

        float bs;

    };

    struct emp e;

    //opening file in writing mode

    //this code try to open the employ.dat

    //if it is already existed and returns null

    //to fp it is not existed

    fp = fopen("employ.dat","r");

    if(fp == NULL){ //if file is not opened

        puts("Cannot open file");

        exit(1);

    }

    printf("\nThe name, age and basic salary are: ");

    //search the file until end of file encountered

    while(fscanf(fp, "%s %d %f\n", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs)!=EOF){

        printf("%s %d %f\n",e.name,e.age,e.bs);

    }

    fclose(fp); //close the file

    return 0;

}