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<cstdio> (stdio.h)

C library to perform Input/Output operations

Input and Output operations can also be performed in C++ using the C Standard Input and Output Library (cstdio, known as stdio.h in the C language). This library uses what are called streams to operate with physical devices such as keyboards, printers, terminals or with any other type of files supported by the system. Streams are an abstraction to interact with these in an uniform way; All streams have similar properties independently of the individual characteristics of the physical media they are associated with.

Streams are handled in the cstdio library as pointers to FILE objects. A pointer to a FILE object uniquely identifies a stream, and is used as a parameter in the operations involving that stream.

There also exist three standard streams: stdin, stdout and stderr, which are automatically created and opened for all programs using the library.



Stream properties Streams have some properties that define which functions can be used on them and how these will treat the data input or output through them. Most of these properties are defined at the moment the stream is associated with a file (opened) using the fopen function:
Read/Write Access
Specifies whether the stream has read or write access (or both) to the physical media they are associated with.
Text / Binary
Text streams are thought to represent a set of text lines, each one ending with a new-line character. Depending on the environment where the application is run, some character translation may occur with text streams to adapt some special characters to the text file specifications of the environment. A binary stream, on the other hand, is a sequence of characters written or read from the physical media with no translation, having a one-to-one correspondence with the characters read or written to the stream.
Buffer
A buffer is a block of memory where data is accumulated before being physically read or written to the associated file or device. Streams can be either fully buffered, line buffered or unbuffered. On fully buffered streams, data is read/written when the buffer is filled, on line buffered streams this happens when a new-line character is encountered, and on unbuffered streams characters are intended to be read/written as soon as possible.
Orientation
On opening, streams have no orientation. As soon as an input/output operation is performed on them, they become either byte-oriented or wide-oriented, depending on the operation performed (generally, functions defined in <cstdio> are byte-oriented, while functions in <cwchar> are wide-oriented). See cwchar for more info.

Indicators Streams have certain internal indicators that specify their current state and which affect the behavior of some input and output operations performed on them:
Error indicator
This indicator is set when an error has occurred in an operation related to the stream. This indicator can be checked with the ferror function, and can be reset by calling either to clearerr, freopen or rewind.
End-Of-File indicator
When set, indicates that the last reading or writing operation performed with the stream reached the End of File. It can be checked with the feof function, and can be reset by calling either to clearerr or freopen or by calling to any repositioning function (rewind, fseek and fsetpos).
Position indicator
It is an internal pointer of each stream which points to the next character to be read or written in the next I/O operation. Its value can be obtained by the ftell and fgetpos functions, and can be changed using the repositioning functions rewind, fseek and fsetpos.

FunctionsOperations on files:
remove
Remove file (function)
rename
Rename file (function)
tmpfile
Open a temporary file (function)
tmpnam
Generate temporary filename (function)

File access:
fclose
Close file (function)
fflush
Flush stream (function)
fopen
Open file (function)
freopen
Reopen stream with different file or mode (function)
setbuf
Set stream buffer (function)
setvbuf
Change stream buffering (function)

Formatted input/output:
fprintf
Write formatted data to stream (function)
fscanf
Read formatted data from stream (function)
printf
Print formatted data to stdout (function)
scanf
Read formatted data from stdin (function)
snprintf
Write formatted output to sized buffer (function)
sprintf
Write formatted data to string (function)
sscanf
Read formatted data from string (function)
vfprintf
Write formatted data from variable argument list to stream (function)
vfscanf
Read formatted data from stream into variable argument list (function)
vprintf
Print formatted data from variable argument list to stdout (function)
vscanf
Read formatted data into variable argument list (function)
vsnprintf
Write formatted data from variable argument list to sized buffer (function)
vsprintf
Write formatted data from variable argument list to string (function)
vsscanf
Read formatted data from string into variable argument list (function)

Character input/output:
fgetc
Get character from stream (function)
fgets
Get string from stream (function)
fputc
Write character to stream (function)
fputs
Write string to stream (function)
getc
Get character from stream (function)
getchar
Get character from stdin (function)
gets
Get string from stdin (function)
putc
Write character to stream (function)
putchar
Write character to stdout (function)
puts
Write string to stdout (function)
ungetc
Unget character from stream (function)

Direct input/output:
fread
Read block of data from stream (function)
fwrite
Write block of data to stream (function)

File positioning:
fgetpos
Get current position in stream (function)
fseek
Reposition stream position indicator (function)
fsetpos
Set position indicator of stream (function)
ftell
Get current position in stream (function)
rewind
Set position of stream to the beginning (function)

Error-handling:
clearerr
Clear error indicators (function)
feof
Check end-of-file indicator (function)
ferror
Check error indicator (function)
perror
Print error message (function)

Macros
BUFSIZ
Buffer size (constant)
EOF
End-of-File (constant)
FILENAME_MAX
Maximum length of file names (constant)
FOPEN_MAX
Potential limit of simultaneous open streams (constant)
L_tmpnam
Minimum length for temporary file name (constant)
NULL
Null pointer (macro)
TMP_MAX
Number of temporary files (constant)
Additionally: _IOFBF, _IOLBF, _IONBF (used with setvbuf)
and SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END and SEEK_SET (used with fseek).

Types
FILE
Object containing information to control a stream (type)
fpos_t
Object containing information to specify a position within a file (type)
size_t
Unsigned integral type (type)

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