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diff --git a/devdocs/c/io%2Ffclose.html b/devdocs/c/io%2Ffclose.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2c80600a --- /dev/null +++ b/devdocs/c/io%2Ffclose.html @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">fclose</h1> <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code><stdio.h></code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl"> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> <pre data-language="c">int fclose( FILE *stream );</pre> +</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> </tr> </table> <p>Closes the given file stream. Any unwritten buffered data are flushed to the OS. Any unread buffered data are discarded.</p> +<p>Whether or not the operation succeeds, the stream is no longer associated with a file, and the buffer allocated by <code><a href="setbuf" title="c/io/setbuf">setbuf</a></code> or <code><a href="setvbuf" title="c/io/setvbuf">setvbuf</a></code>, if any, is also disassociated and deallocated if automatic allocation was used.</p> +<p>The behavior is undefined if the value of the pointer <code>stream</code> is used after <code>fclose</code> returns.</p> +<h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> stream </td> <td> - </td> <td> the file stream to close </td> +</tr> +</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <p><code>0</code> on success, <code><a href="../io" title="c/io">EOF</a></code> otherwise</p> +<h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +int main(void) +{ + const char* fname = "/tmp/unique_name.txt"; // or tmpnam(NULL); + int is_ok = EXIT_FAILURE; + + FILE* fp = fopen(fname, "w+"); + if (!fp) { + perror("File opening failed"); + return is_ok; + } + fputs("Hello, world!\n", fp); + rewind(fp); + + int c; // note: int, not char, required to handle EOF + while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) // standard C I/O file reading loop + putchar(c); + + if (ferror(fp)) + puts("I/O error when reading"); + else if (feof(fp)) { + puts("End of file is reached successfully"); + is_ok = EXIT_SUCCESS; + } + + fclose(fp); + remove(fname); + return is_ok; +}</pre></div> <p>Possible output:</p> +<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">Hello, world! +End of file is reached successfully</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3> <ul> +<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li> +<ul><li> 7.21.5.1 The fclose function (p: 304) </li></ul> +<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li> +<ul><li> 7.19.5.1 The fclose function (p: 270) </li></ul> +<li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): </li> +<ul><li> 4.9.5.1 The fclose function </li></ul> +</ul> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="fopen" title="c/io/fopen"> <span class="t-lines"><span>fopen</span><span>fopen_s</span></span></a></div> +<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> opens a file <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td> +</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="freopen" title="c/io/freopen"> <span class="t-lines"><span>freopen</span><span>freopen_s</span></span></a></div> +<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> open an existing stream with a different name <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td> +</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fclose" title="cpp/io/c/fclose">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>fclose</code> </td> +</tr> </table> <div class="_attribution"> + <p class="_attribution-p"> + © cppreference.com<br>Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Unported License v3.0.<br> + <a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/fclose" class="_attribution-link">https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/fclose</a> + </p> +</div> |
