I have a problem when copying binary files using fread
and fwrite
:
the loop runs only two times (40 bytes), but the file length is 160 bytes:
#include <string.h>
#define PER_READ 30
int main(void)
{
char buffer[500] = { 0 };
FILE* CSV = fopen( "CSV.csv", "rb" );
FILE* csvDest = fopen( "CSVDest.csv", "wb" );
unsigned int finished = 0;
unsigned int counter = 0;
do
{
finished = fread( buffer, sizeof( char*), PER_READ, CSV );//Read all from CSV to a string name buffer
finished += PER_READ * counter;
counter++;
} while (finished == PER_READ * counter);
fwrite( buffer, sizeof( char* ), finished, csvDest );// write all to a the file CSVDest
system( "PAUSE" );
return (0);
};
Your implementation could be a simple loop like this, which repeats until there were no bytes read. Note that sizeof(char*)
is wrong - the size of a pointer, and that sizeof(char)
is 1
by definition.
#include <stdio.h> // include proper header
#define BUFFSIZE 512 // power of 2 is kind to system
int main(void)
{
char buffer[BUFFSIZE];
size_t bytes;
FILE *fin, *fou;
fin = fopen("CSV.csv", "rb");
fou = fopen("CSVDest.csv", "wb");
if(fin == NULL || fou == NULL)
return 1; // or other action
while ((bytes = fread(buffer, 1, BUFFSIZE, fin)) != 0) {
if(fwrite(buffer, 1, bytes, fou) != bytes) {
return 1; // or other action
}
}
fclose(fou);
fclose(fin);
return 0;
}
You do:
finished = fread( buffer, sizeof(char), PER_READ, CSV );
finished += PER_READ * counter;
and then you compare:
while (finished == PER_READ * counter);
how do expect this to turn out?
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define PER_READ 30
int main( void )
{
char buffer[500] = { 0 };
FILE* CSV = fopen( "CSV.csv", "rb" );
FILE* csvDest = fopen( "CSVDest.csv", "wb" );
unsigned int finished = 0;
unsigned int counter = 0;
unsigned int numBlocksRead = 0;
do
{
numBlocksRead = fread( buffer, sizeof( char ), PER_READ, CSV );
finished += numBlocksRead*sizeof( char );
counter++;
fwrite( buffer, sizeof( char ), numBlocksRead, csvDest );
} while (finished == PER_READ * counter);
fclose( CSV );
fclose( csvDest );
system( "PAUSE" );
return (0);
}