Reseting a file pointer

[ChimpFace9000]

This is in C. After ive read all the way through a file using getc(to get the size of the file), how do i reset the file pointer back to the beginning so i can read the file into a buffer?

[Zaei]

Look at "seekf()".

Z.

[ChimpFace9000]

I dont have a manual, so please just tell me how to use it.

[abdul]

You actually use "fseek" to set the cursor position in a file. Here is the description of it:

Reposition stream's position indicator.
  Sets the position indicator associated with the stream to a new position defined by an offset from the location given by the origin parameter.
  The End-Of-File indicator of this stream is cleared after a call to fseek. 
  When using fseek on files opened in text mode consider that you can only be sure of the results if an offset of 0 or an offset equal to a value returned from ftell is specified, any other offset value makes result unpredictable because of Carriage-Return translations under this mode. 
  The next operation with the stream after a call to fseek can be either for input or output. 

Parameters. 

stream 
Pointer to an open file. 
offset 
Number of bytes from origin. 
origin 
Initial position from where offset is applied. It can be any of these constants defined in stdio.h: SEEK_SET (0) Beginning of file. 
SEEK_CUR (1) Current position of the file pointer. 
SEEK_END (2) End of file. 

Return Value.
  If successful the function returns 0. Otherwise it returns nonzero.


Portability.
  Defined in ANSI-C. 

Example.


/* fseek example */
#include <stdio.h>

main ()
{
  FILE * pFile;
  pFile = fopen ("myfile.txt","w");
  fputs ("This is an apple.",pFile);
  fseek (pFile,9,SEEK_SET);
  fputs (" sam",pFile);
  fclose (pFile);
  return 0;
}

After this code is executed, a file called example.txt will be created and will contain the sentence
This is a sample.

[jim mcnamara]

ansi c -

#include <stdio.h>

void main( void )
{
   FILE *stream;
      stream = fopen( "mfile", "r" );
      result = fseek( stream, 1L, SEEK_SET);
      if( result )
         perror( "Fseek failed" );
      else
         printf( "File pointer is at the beginning of the file.\n" );
      fclose( stream );
   }
}