Re: how to pass a file to a c program

<neha_chhatre@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:
> How to pass a text file to a c program ???
>
> Is it using abstract data types?? (eg. using arg v,arg
> c)..........................???
>
You've got two choices.

Either pass in the path to the file on the commandline and, as Army1987 
said, use fp = fopen(argv[1], "r") where fp is a FILE *.

Alternatively, most plarforms allow you to pipe a file to standard input.
So 
you can get the file line by line by calling fgets(), or character by 
character by calling getchar(). You could also call gets(), but that
suffers 
from the problem that long lines might crash your program.

The first method is more common.

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