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Practical-30

Write a program using fseek and ftell functions.​

Introduction

Code

Practical-30.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    /* Declaring new variables */
    FILE *fp;
    char ch;

    /* Opening a file "example.txt" in read mode */
    fp = fopen("example.txt", "r");

    /* Checking whether it is empty or not */
    if (fp == NULL) {
        printf("File is empty");

    }

    /* Navigate to the fifth character in the file */
    fseek(fp, 5, SEEK_SET);

	/* Get position of current character */
    ftell(fp);

    /* Read the character at current location */
    ch = fgetc(fp);

    printf ("The character at offset 5 is %c",ch);

    /* Closing the file */
    fclose(fp);


}

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