fread

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< c | io

Defined in header `<stdio.h>`

size_t fread( void buffer, size_t size, size_t count, FILE stream );		(until C99)

size_t fread( void restrict buffer, size_t size, size_t count, FILE restrict stream );		(since C99)

Reads specified number of objects in the array buffer from the given input stream stream. Objects are not interpreted in any way.

buffer	-	pointer to the first object object in the array to be read
size	-	size of each object in bytes
count	-	the number of the objects to be read

number of objects read successfully


scanf fscanf sscanf	reads formatted input from stdin, a file stream or a buffer (function)

fgets	gets a character string from a file stream (function)

fwrite	writes to a file (function)