On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:51:51PM +1200, Daniel Fone wrote:
>
> int main()
> {
> FILE *myfile;
> myfile = fopen("quotes", "r");
> if(myfile = NULL)
> {
> printf("Quote file not found!");
> return 1;
> }
> char * sQuote;
> fgets(sQuote, 256, myfile);
> printf(sQuote);
> return 0;
> }
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have no idea what this means and this is the first time I have done any file
> I/O in linux. Does anyone know what this means and/or how to fix it?
You don't have Linux-specific problems, you have C-specific problems.
C is not always the best thing to use :-) but opinions vary. Under most
unixes, especially Linux, perl is a useful language for file/data
manipulations.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
open QUOTE, "quotes" or die "Quote file unreadable!";
while (<QUOTE>) { print; }
That's your whole program, with the advantage that you
re not forced to read and write in 256-byte chunks, and it will
therefore run faster.
(Yes, you could change your read buffer size in your C program, and for
efficiency you'd try to match your system's buffer size ...)
-jim
