Does fread move the file pointer?

Answer: Yes, the position of the file pointer is updated automatically after the read operation, so that successive fread() functions read successive file records. Clarification: fread() is a block oriented function. The standard prototype is: size_t fread(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t limit, FILE *stream); The function reads from the stream pointed to by stream and … Read more

PHP – Returning the last line in a file?

The simplest naive solution is simply: $file = “/path/to/file”; $data = file($file); $line = $data[count($data)-1]; Though, this WILL load the whole file into memory. Possibly a problem (or not). A better solution is this: $file = escapeshellarg($file); // for the security concious (should be everyone!) $line = `tail -n 1 $file`;

A C# equivalent of C’s fread file i/o

There isn’t anything wrong with using the P/Invoke marshaller, it is not unsafe and you don’t have to use the unsafe keyword. Getting it wrong will just produce bad data. It can be a lot easier to use than explicitly writing the deserialization code, especially when the file contains strings. You can’t use BinaryReader.ReadString(), it … Read more

How does fread really work?

There may or may not be any difference in performance. There is a difference in semantics. fread(a, 1, 1000, stdin); attempts to read 1000 data elements, each of which is 1 byte long. fread(a, 1000, 1, stdin); attempts to read 1 data element which is 1000 bytes long. They’re different because fread() returns the number … Read more