Hi Everyone,
I have a buffer having some raw ASCII data and i want to write it
into a file.
Note that "raw ASCII data" is meaningless as far as C is concerned. I
will assume you meant "char data"
One way is to loop through the buffer and write a single character at
a time and close the file after the loop exits.
As long as the data contains no '\0' chars, fprintf will probably do
what you want. But see below.
However i feel this will be a bit slow, is there any way the entire
buffer's contents in RAM can be copied directly into the file?
It may or may not be slow. But, in any case, fwrite and fread may be
optimized (see below).
Save some bangs for your next premature ejaculation.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void)
{
char data[] = "This is 'data', some character data which should\n"
"be written at one go to a file.\n"
"When we check the file, we will read it into 'check',\n"
"which starts life holding \"deadbeaf\\n\". That should be\n"
"overwritten.\n";
char check[sizeof data] = "deadbeaf\n";
FILE *f;
const char fname[] = "./tmpfile";
printf("The original 'data' string:\n%s\n", data);
printf("The original 'check' string:\n%s\n", check);
if (!(f = fopen(fname, "wb"))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Attempt to open \"%s\" for output failed.\n\""
"Giving up ...\n", fname);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("\"%s\" is open for output,\n"
"writing 'data' using fwrite\n\n", fname);
printf("%d chars written.\n",
(int) fwrite(data, 1, sizeof data, f));
printf("fclose %s.\n\n", fclose(f) ? "failed" : "succeeded");
if (!(f = fopen(fname, "rb"))) {
fprintf(stderr,
"Attempt to open \"%s\" for input failed.\n\""
"Giving up ...\n", fname);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("\"%s\" is open for input,\n"
"reading 'check' using fread\n\n", fname);
printf("%d chars read.\n", (int) fread(check, 1, sizeof check, f));
printf("fclose %s.\n\n", fclose(f) ? "failed" : "succeeded");
printf("The final 'data' string:\n%s\n", data);
printf("The final 'check' string:\n%s\n", check);
printf("remove %s.\n\n", remove(fname) ? "failed" : "succeeded");
return 0;
}
The original 'data' string:
This is 'data', some character data which should
be written at one go to a file.
When we check the file, we will read it into 'check',
which starts life holding "deadbeaf\n". That should be
overwritten.
The original 'check' string:
deadbeaf
"./tmpfile" is open for output,
writing 'data' using fwrite
205 chars written.
fclose succeeded.
"./tmpfile" is open for input,
reading 'check' using fread
205 chars read.
fclose succeeded.
The final 'data' string:
This is 'data', some character data which should
be written at one go to a file.
When we check the file, we will read it into 'check',
which starts life holding "deadbeaf\n". That should be
overwritten.
The final 'check' string:
This is 'data', some character data which should
be written at one go to a file.
When we check the file, we will read it into 'check',
which starts life holding "deadbeaf\n". That should be
overwritten.
remove succeeded.
