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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FILE *fp[]; /* is this possible? */
Message-ID: <14592@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 27 Nov 90 18:37:58 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.131327.21662@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Nov27.131327.21662@agate.berkeley.edu> labb-4ac@e260-2a.berkeley.edu (superMan (the web dweller)) writes:
>FILE *fp[256];
>for(i=0;i!=256;i++) fp[i]=fopen(file_name[i],"r+");
>but when I look at the value of fp[i] I get (nil)

Well, why not?  fopen() is entitled to fail.  And it probably will if
you try to have too many files open at the same time.