Write a C program that displays contents of given line page by page. Given number of lines to show as ‘n’ at a time and a file name, the program should first show n lines, then wait for user to hit a key before showing next n lines and so on.
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We can open the given file and print contents of files. While printing, we can keep track of number of newline characters. If the number of newline characters become n, we wait for the user to press a key before showing next n lines.
Following is the requires C program.
// C program to show contents of a file with breaks #include <stdio.h> // This function displays a given file with breaks of // given line numbers. void show( char *fname, int n)
{ // Open given file
FILE *fp = fopen (fname, "r" );
int curr_lines = 0, ch;
// If not able to open file
if (fp == NULL)
{
printf ( "File doesn't exist\n" );
return ;
}
// Read contents of file
while ((ch = fgetc (fp)) != EOF)
{
// print current character
putchar (ch);
// If current character is a new line character,
// then increment count of current lines
if (ch == '\n' )
{
curr_lines++;
// If count of current lines reaches limit, then
// wait for user to enter a key
if (curr_lines == n)
{
curr_lines = 0;
getchar ();
}
}
}
fclose (fp);
} // Driver program to test above function int main()
{ char fname[] = "A.CPP" ;
int n = 25;
show(fname, n);
return 0;
} |