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Borland C++ 3.1 › <stdio.h>

fgets

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Gets a string from a stream.

Defined in header <stdio.h>

Syntax

#include <stdio.h>
char *fgets(char *s, int n, FILE *stream);

Portability

DOSUNIXWindowsANSI CC++ only
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Remarks

fgets reads characters from stream into the string s. The function stops reading when it reads either n-1 characters or a newline character, whichever comes first, fgets retains the newline character at the end of s. A null byte is appended to s to mark the end of the string.

Return value

On success, fgets returns the string pointed to by s; it returns null on end-of-file or error.

See also

Example

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
   FILE * Stream;
   char string!     "This is a test";
   char msg[20]
   /* open a file for update  */
   stream = fopen( "DUMMY.FIL", "w+");
   /* write a string into  the file */
   fwrite(string, strlen(string) , 1, stream);

   /* seek to the start of  the file */
   fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_SET);

   /* read a string from the  file */
   fgets(msg, strlen(string) +1, stream);

   /* display the string  */
   printf("%s", msg) ;
   fclose(stream);

   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

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