Been working on this for a whole day now. I need to write text at a particular point in a file. CODE: Code: /* fseek example */ #include <stdio.h> int 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; } OUTPUT: This is an apple. sam SHOULD BE: This is a sample. Could it be my compiler? I just have a crappy one that I downloaded online somewhere. fflush(pFile) after my first fputs() doesn't work either. =(
If you are opening the file using "w" that means its created newly and so it does not have a position you are specifying because fseek cannot put a pointer beyond EOF.