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Read file from the end
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You can use fseek. fread also can be used to read from a relative from current position or absolute to the end or the gebin of file. John Fill
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see my code and explain me
fseek(pFile,0L,SEEK_END);
--here if use fread/fscanf etc..it reads the EOF..
but i need to travel back wards..
For Eg if my file contains the following..
This is a file for test
My first statement places my pointer at the char 't'.if i say fread/fgets/..etc..it returns the EOF but i need to read backwards ie. ..test for file a is This.. like this...
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fseek(pFile,0L,SEEK_END);
--here if use fread/fscanf etc..it reads the EOF..
but i need to travel back wards..
For Eg if my file contains the following..
This is a file for test
My first statement places my pointer at the char 't'.if i say fread/fgets/..etc..it returns the EOF but i need to read backwards ie. ..test for file a is This.. like this...
Ur View Pl.
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