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From: tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: SAS C Bug?? Standard FILE command does not work!!
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.173003.2444@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 17:30:03 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.221835.1230@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <ben.4666@epmooch.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:

>>In article <1991Jan27.221835.1230@rodan.acs.syr.edu> goldberg@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ross Goldberg) writes:
>>I am trying to get a procedure working to read and write records to the
>>disk.  This is accomplished in many books by using fwrite and fread.
>>The sample below comes from one of the books...the problem is:
>[...]
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>main ()
>>{
>> typedef struct {
>>       char name[15];
>>       int midterm;
>>  } grades;
>>int i,number;
>>char name[50];
>>grades student;
>>FILE *fp;
>>printf("class file  ");
>>scanf("%s",name);
>>if (NULL!=(fp=fopen(name,"w"))) {
>>   printf("number of students");
>>   scanf("%d",&number);
>>   for (i=0;i<number;i=i+1) {
>>     printf("student's name:  ");
>>     scanf("%[^\n]",student.name);

This doesn't answer your problem with fwrite.  But it may interest you to
know that SAS's scanf doesn't support %[].

>>     printf("midterm score:  ");
>>     scanf("%d",&(student.midterm));
>>     fwrite (&student,sizeof(student),1,fp);
>      ^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^
>>   }

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