How To Use Fflush In Dev C++
The solution is actually simple. The secret lies within the scanf function itself. If you want the scanf function to ignore whitespaces while reading in inputs, just simply add a blank character in the format string before the format specifier. In files open for update (i.e., open for both reading and writing), the stream shall be flushed after an output operation before performing an input operation. This can be done either by repositioning (fseek, fsetpos, rewind) or by calling explicitly fflush, like in this example.
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int fflush(FILE*stream ); |
For output streams (and for update streams on which the last operation was output), writes any unwritten data from the stream's buffer to the associated output device.
For input streams (and for update streams on which the last operation was input), the behavior is undefined.
If stream is a null pointer, all open output streams are flushed, including the ones manipulated within library packages or otherwise not directly accessible to the program.
[edit]Parameters
| stream | - | the file stream to write out |
[edit]Return value
Returns zero on success. Otherwise EOF is returned and the error indicator of the file stream is set.
[edit]Notes
POSIX extends the specification of fflush by defining its effects on an input stream, as long as that stream represents a file or another seekable device: in that case the POSIX file pointer is repositioned to match the C stream pointer (which effectively undoes any read buffering) and the effects of any ungetc or ungetwc that weren't yet read back from the stream are discarded.
Microsoft also extends the specification of fflush by defining its effects on an input stream: in Visual Studio 2013 and prior, it discarded the input buffer, in Visual Studio 2015 and newer, it has no effect, buffers are retained.
[edit]References
- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
- 7.21.5.2 The fflush function (p: 305)
- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
- 7.19.5.2 The fflush function (p: 270-271)
- C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
- 4.9.5.2 The fflush function
[edit]See also
(C11) | opens a file (function)[edit] |
| closes a file (function)[edit] | |
C++ documentation for fflush | |
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Flushes a stream.
Syntax
Parameters
stream
Pointer to FILE structure.
Return Value
fflush returns 0 if the buffer was successfully flushed. The value 0 is also returned in cases in which the specified stream has no buffer or is open for reading only. A return value of EOF indicates an error.
Note
If fflush returns EOF, data may have been lost due to a write failure. When setting up a critical error handler, it is safest to turn buffering off with the setvbuf function or to use low-level I/O routines such as _open, _close, and _write instead of the stream I/O functions.
Remarks
Fflush C Programming
The fflush function flushes the stream stream. If the stream was opened in write mode, or it was opened in update mode and the last operation was a write, the contents of the stream buffer are written to the underlying file or device and the buffer is discarded. If the stream was opened in read mode, or if the stream has no buffer, the call to fflush has no effect, and any buffer is retained. A call to fflush negates the effect of any prior call to ungetc for the stream. The stream remains open after the call.
If stream is NULL, the behavior is the same as a call to fflush on each open stream. All streams opened in write mode and all streams opened in update mode where the last operation was a write are flushed. The call has no effect on other streams.
Buffers are normally maintained by the operating system, which determines the optimal time to write the data automatically to disk: when a buffer is full, when a stream is closed, or when a program terminates normally without closing the stream. The commit-to-disk feature of the run-time library lets you ensure that critical data is written directly to disk rather than to the operating-system buffers. Without rewriting an existing program, you can enable this feature by linking the program's object files with COMMODE.OBJ. In the resulting executable file, calls to _flushall write the contents of all buffers to disk. Only _flushall and fflush are affected by COMMODE.OBJ.
For information about controlling the commit-to-disk feature, see Stream I/O, fopen, and _fdopen.
This function locks the calling thread and is therefore thread-safe. For a non-locking version, see _fflush_nolock.
By default, this function's global state is scoped to the application. To change this, see Global state in the CRT.
Requirements
| Function | Required header |
|---|---|
| fflush | <stdio.h> |
For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility.
C++ Fflush Stdout
Example
See also
How To Use Fflush In C++
Stream I/O
fclose, _fcloseall
_flushall
setvbuf