Reading and Writing Files in C

Reading and Writing Files in C — a practical guide to C file read write with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Prefer fgets over gets (gets is removed/unsafe).

fgets

char line[256];
while (fgets(line, sizeof line, fp)) {
    fputs(line, stdout);
}