I have a lot of data stored in bin format as a sequence of structs. I want to be able to read randomly any of the structs and modify it in C. I am trying with the following code but it doesn't work. Can someone fix it for me please?
Also, would it be possible to delete an intermediate struct from the file in between?
The code is below:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct rec {
int x,y,z;
};
void f_rite()
{
int i;
FILE *ptr_myfile;
struct rec my_record;
ptr_myfile=fopen("test.bin","w");
for ( i=0; i < 5; i++ ) {
my_record.x = i;
fwrite( &my_record, sizeof(struct rec), 1, ptr_myfile );
}
fclose(ptr_myfile);
return;
}
void f_read()
{
int i;
FILE *ptr_myfile;
struct rec my_record;
ptr_myfile=fopen("test.bin","r");
for ( i=1; i <= 5; i++) {
fread(&my_record,sizeof(struct rec),1,ptr_myfile);
printf("%d\n",my_record.x);
}
printf("\n");
fclose(ptr_myfile);
return;
}
void f_rerite()
{
int i;
FILE *ptr_myfile;
struct rec my_record;
ptr_myfile=fopen("test.bin","rw");
for ( i=5; i >= 0; i-- ) {
fseek( ptr_myfile, sizeof(struct rec)*i, SEEK_SET );
fread( &my_record, sizeof(struct rec), 1, ptr_myfile );
my_record.x = my_record.x + 100;
fwrite( &my_record, sizeof(struct rec), 1, ptr_myfile );
}
fclose(ptr_myfile);
return;
}
int main()
{
f_rite();
f_read();
f_rerite();
f_read();
return 0;
}