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[Tumour]

The code below will printf out the no. of characters as 6, even if we enter only 2...
why.

#include<stdio.h>

#include<string.h>

 

int main()

{

	FILE *fp;

	char c;


	

	fp=fopen("random","w");


	while((c=getchar())!=EOF)

		putc(c,fp);


	printf("\nNo. of characters = %ld",ftell(fp));

	fclose(fp);


}

[Flying Dutchman]

From cplusplus.com reference:

Quote

For text streams, the value is not guaranteed to be the exact number of bytes from the beginning of the file

[Ancient Dragon]

Also see my answer here

[fread]

Wouldn't it be easier to just count how many characters you write to the file?

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Edit:I just saw looked at your post Dragon.