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William Wendling (wendling@eagle.uis.edu) wrote:

: C is not the language of choice in writing record handling applications.
: COBOL is very good at that.  However, you can open the record by:
                                                         ^^^^^^
                                                         file

: FILE	fo;
: fo=fopen("file", "rt");
                     ^
                    't' here has no meaning in ANSI C.
: if it is a text file.  If not, replace the rt by rb.
: Then read each record in using an fgets function.  (It is in the
: standard library and should be in any of the docs.)  This function
: reads until a new-line char is encountered and then returns that
: line with a trailing '\0'. 
    If it is not a text file then fgets is probably the wrong function
        to use.

: I suppose that you could have this being read into a structure of
: some sort.
    You can read binary files directly into structs with fread. But
making the right structure for the file is implementation specific and
may not always be possible.

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