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Programming in C
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Programming in C

by Ashok N Kamthane
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
17h
English
Pearson India
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CHAPTER 14

Files

Chapter Outline

14.1 Introduction of a File

14.2 Definition of File

14.3 Streams and File Types

14.4 Steps for File Operations

14.5 File I/O

14.6 Structures Read and Write

14.7 Other File Function

14.8 Searching Errors in Reading/Writing Files

14.9 Low-Level Disk I/O

14.10 Command Line Arguments

14.11 Application of Command Line Arguments

14.12 Environment Variables

14.13 I/O Redirection

14.1 Introduction OF A FILE

A file is nothing but collection of records. Record is group of related data items. All data items ­related to students, employees, customers etc is nothing but records. In other words, file is a collection of numbers, symbols & text placed onto the secondary devices like hard disk, pen drive, compact disk etc. ...

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