ferror

Defined in header <stdio.h> 
int ferror( FILE *stream );

Checks the given stream for errors.

Parameters

stream - the file stream to check

Return value

Nonzero value if the file stream has errors occurred, ​0​ otherwise

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <wchar.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    char* fname = tmpnam(NULL);
    FILE* f = fopen(fname, "wb");
    fputs("\xff\xff\n", f); // not a valid UTF-8 character sequence
    fclose(f);
 
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    f = fopen(fname, "rb");
    wint_t ch;
    while ((ch=fgetwc(f)) != WEOF) // attempt to read as UTF-8 fails
          printf("%#x ", ch);
 
    if (feof(f))
        puts("EOF indicator set");
    if (ferror(f))
        puts("Error indicator set");
}

Output:

Error indicator set

References

See also

clearerr
 clears errors
(function)
feof
 checks for the end-of-file
(function)
C++ documentation for ferror

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