This chapter comprises functions to manage files or other input/output streams. Among these functions are subroutines to generate or scan strings according to specifications from a format string.
The underlying facilities for input and output depend on the host system, but these functions provide a uniform interface.
The corresponding declarations are in stdio.h.
The reentrant versions of these functions use macros
_stdin_r(reent) _stdout_r(reent) _stderr_r(reent)
instead of the globals stdin
, stdout
, and
stderr
. The argument reent is a pointer to a reentrancy
structure.
• clearerr | Clear file or stream error indicator | |
• diprintf | Print to a file descriptor (integer only) | |
• dprintf | Print to a file descriptor | |
• fclose | Close a file | |
• fcloseall | Close all files | |
• fdopen | Turn an open file into a stream | |
• feof | Test for end of file | |
• ferror | Test whether read/write error has occurred | |
• fflush | Flush buffered file output | |
• fgetc | Get a character from a file or stream | |
• fgetpos | Record position in a stream or file | |
• fgets | Get character string from a file or stream | |
• fgetwc | Get a wide character from a file or stream | |
• fgetws | Get a wide character string from a file or stream | |
• fileno | Get file descriptor associated with stream | |
• fmemopen | Open a stream around a fixed-length buffer | |
• fopen | Open a file | |
• fopencookie | Open a stream with custom callbacks | |
• fpurge | Discard all pending I/O on a stream | |
• fputc | Write a character on a stream or file | |
• fputs | Write a character string in a file or stream | |
• fputwc | Write a wide character to a file or stream | |
• fputws | Write a wide character string to a file or stream | |
• fread | Read array elements from a file | |
• freopen | Open a file using an existing file descriptor | |
• fseek | Set file position | |
• __fsetlocking | Set or query locking mode on FILE stream | |
• fsetpos | Restore position of a stream or file | |
• ftell | Return position in a stream or file | |
• funopen | Open a stream with custom callbacks | |
• fwide | Set and determine the orientation of a FILE stream | |
• fwrite | Write array elements from memory to a file or stream | |
• getc | Get a character from a file or stream (macro) | |
• getc_unlocked | Get a character from a file or stream (macro) | |
• getchar | Get a character from standard input (macro) | |
• getchar_unlocked | Get a character from standard input (macro) | |
• getdelim | Get character string from a file or stream | |
• getline | Get character string from a file or stream | |
• gets | Get character string from standard input (obsolete) | |
• getw | Get a word (int) from a file or stream | |
• getwchar | Get a wide character from standard input | |
• mktemp | Generate unused file name | |
• open_memstream | Open a write stream around an arbitrary-length buffer | |
• perror | Print an error message on standard error | |
• putc | Write a character on a stream or file (macro) | |
• putc_unlocked | Write a character on a stream or file (macro) | |
• putchar | Write a character on standard output (macro) | |
• putchar_unlocked | Write a character on standard output (macro) | |
• puts | Write a character string on standard output | |
• putw | Write a word (int) to a file or stream | |
• putwchar | Write a wide character to standard output | |
• remove | Delete a file’s name | |
• rename | Rename a file | |
• rewind | Reinitialize a file or stream | |
• setbuf | Specify full buffering for a file or stream | |
• setbuffer | Specify full buffering for a file or stream with size | |
• setlinebuf | Specify line buffering for a file or stream | |
• setvbuf | Specify buffering for a file or stream | |
• siprintf | Write formatted output (integer only) | |
• siscanf | Scan and format input (integer only) | |
• sprintf | Write formatted output | |
• sscanf | Scan and format input | |
• stdio_ext | Access internals of FILE structure | |
• swprintf | Write formatted wide character output | |
• swscanf | Scan and format wide character input | |
• tmpfile | Create a temporary file | |
• tmpnam | Generate name for a temporary file | |
• ungetc | Push data back into a stream | |
• ungetwc | Push wide character data back into a stream | |
• vfprintf | Format variable argument list | |
• vfscanf | Scan variable argument list | |
• vfwprintf | Format variable wide character argument list | |
• vfwscanf | Scan and format argument list from wide character input | |
• viprintf | Format variable argument list (integer only) | |
• viscanf | Scan variable format list (integer only) |