I/O on Streams

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Input/Output on Streams

This chapter describes the functions for creating streams and performing input and output operations on them. As discussed in I/O Overview, a stream is a fairly abstract, high-level concept representing a communications channel to a file, device, or process.

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• Streams :: About the data type representing a stream.
• Standard Streams :: Streams to the standard input and output devices are created for you.
• Opening Streams :: How to create a stream to talk to a file.
• Closing Streams :: Close a stream when you are finished with it.
• Streams and Threads :: Issues with streams in threaded programs.
• Streams and I18N :: Streams in internationalized applications.
• Simple Output :: Unformatted output by characters and lines.
• Character Input :: Unformatted input by characters and words.
• Line Input :: Reading a line or a record from a stream.
• Unreading :: Peeking ahead/pushing back input just read.
• Block Input/Output :: Input and output operations on blocks of data.
• Formatted Output :: printf and related functions.
• Customizing Printf :: You can define new conversion specifiers for printf and friends.
• Formatted Input :: scanf and related functions.
• EOF and Errors :: How you can tell if an I/O error happens.
• Error Recovery :: What you can do about errors.
• Binary Streams :: Some systems distinguish between text files and binary files.
• File Positioning :: About random-access streams.
• Portable Positioning :: Random access on peculiar ISO C systems.
• Stream Buffering :: How to control buffering of streams.
• Other Kinds of Streams :: Streams that do not necessarily correspond to an open file.
• Formatted Messages :: Print strictly formatted messages.