File Processing in C

[Maze]

Can we read .htm, .pdf, .chm or any kind of file types in c.

Thanks for help

[Mathematix]

You can read or write anything you like to a file in C or C++. Where it becomes significant is where you read/write in either binary or text modes to determine how your program interprets the data.

[Maze]

For example can i read .chm or .pdf file like i read .txt file_?

[WingedPanther]

You have to account for the different encodings. Large portions of a .pdf file are not text. Also, pdf files are at least partially zipped data.

[Mathematix]

You have to account for the different encodings. Large portions of a .pdf file are not text. Also, pdf files are at least partially zipped data.

Well, you can read or write absolutely anything you like to a file. The concept of its format only comes into being when the algorithm interpreting its content into meaningful data becomes apparent.

This is true for any file of any format. All a program does is read bytes from a file before that data is parsed to be somehow meaningful.

[Mathematix]

For example can i read .chm or .pdf file like i read .txt file_?

Yes you can, but as a .CHM is a binary file you will have to work some coding magic to convert its content into pure text.

[Maze]

Mathematix great thanks. I completely understand the matter.

[Maze]

+ rep

[Mathematix]

No problem, Maze! Good luck.