char chr(int keycode) ???

joakim12 · 04-22-2004, 02:45 AM

Is there a function in GlibC that can do it for me?

char FunctionName(int keycode)

The problem is that I read from a file with:

int fgetc (FILE * stream);

and i want to append that char to a string:

char * strcat ( char * dest, const char * src );

but the:

char * fgets (char * string , int num , FILE * stream);

does not work correctly. It reads in something completely different on certain cases.

For example the string in a textfile:

P6hja-Ameerika

Will be printed with mvprintw and something like that (not exactly):

P6hja-Ameeri^A^Bka

And some other words cause different phenomena characters.
I don't know why but I thought to give a try to fgetc. Or maybe someone knows the deal with fgets. I wanna read from a file char-by-char to know exactly what I'm reading.

Leho Pärnapuu

itsme86 · 04-22-2004, 03:59 AM

To read a file a char at a time I'd write something like this (you were right to use fgetc()):

Code:

// Assume buffer is large enough to hold the file and fp is already open
void read_file(char *buffer, FILE *fp)
{
  int ch;
  char *b = buffer;

  while((ch = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
    *b++ = ch;
  *b = '\0';  // NULL-terminate if you want to use the buffer as a string
}