C program to print odd line contents of a File followed by even line content

Pre-requisite: Basics of File Handling in C

Given a text file in a directory, the task is to print all the odd line content of the file first then print all the even line content.

Examples:

Input: file1.txt:
Welcome
to
GeeksforGeeks
Output:
Odd line contents:
Welcome
GeeksforGeeks
Even line contents:
to

Input: file1.txt:
1. This is Line1.
2. This is Line2.
3. This is Line3.
4. This is Line4.

Output:
Odd line contents:
1. This is Line1.
3. This is Line3.
Even line contents:
2. This is Line2.
4. This is Line4.

Approach:

1. Open the file in a+ mode.
2. Insert a new line at the end of the file, so that the output doesn’t get effected.
3. Print odd lines of the file by keeping a check, that doesn’t print even lines of the file.
4. Rewind the file pointer.
5. Reinitialize check.
6. Print even lines of the file by keeping a check, that doesn’t print odd lines of the file.

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

// C program for the above approach

#include <stdio.h>

// Function which prints the file content
// in Odd Even manner
void printOddEvenLines(char x[])
{
    // Opening the path entered by user
    FILE* fp = fopen(x, "a+");

    // If file is null, then return
    if (!fp) {
        printf("Unable to open/detect file");
        return;
    }

    // Insert a new line at the end so
    // that output doesn't get effected
    fprintf(fp, "\n");

    // fseek() function to move the
    // file pointer to 0th position
    fseek(fp, 0, 0);

    int check = 0;
    char buf[100];

    // Print Odd lines to stdout
    while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp)) {

        // If check is Odd, then it is
        // odd line
        if (!(check % 2)) {
            printf("%s", buf);
        }
        check++;
    }
    check = 1;

    // fseek() function to rewind the
    // file pointer to 0th position
    fseek(fp, 0, 0);

    // Print Even lines to stdout
    while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp)) {

        if (!(check % 2)) {
            printf("%s", buf);
        }
        check++;
    }

    // Close the file
    fclose(fp);

    return;
}

// Driver Code
int main()
{
    // Input filename
    char x[] = "file1.txt";

    // Function Call
    printOddEvenLines(x);

    return 0;
}

Input File:

Output File: