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fgets() function of stdio.h in C

In this article, we are going to learn about the fgets() function of stdio.h header file in C programming language and use it while getting the characters from file pointer.
Submitted by Abhishek Sharma, on April 13, 2018

If you are handling files in your application then reading from a file is something that you cannot ignore. Therefore, the function fgets() will help you doing this.

The Function is use to read a string from a file. The Function needs only three parameters, first a character array, second is the number of character you want to read and the third is the file itself.

Example:

    fgets (str, 60, F); 
    //Here, str is a character array, F is the file variable.

It will read 60 characters from the file from the current position of the cursor.

stdio.h - fgets() function Example in C

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    //initializing the file pointer
    //and type of variables
    FILE* F;
    char str[60];

    //open file abc in read mode
    F = fopen("abc.txt", "r");

    if (F == NULL) {
        perror("Error is:");
        return (-1);
    }
    if (fgets(str, 60, F) != NULL) {
        //printing the output on console
        puts(str);
    }
    fclose(F);

    return (0);
}

Output

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