C Tutorial
Control statement
C Loops
C Arrays
C String
C Functions
C Structure
C Pointer
C File
C Header Files
C Preprocessors
C Misc
About stdio.h header file in C language
stdio stands for Standard Input Output. stdio.h is a header file which has the information for taking input and showing output. Some functions which are defined under this stdio.h header file is given bellow.
- printf() — printf() function is used to print anything. It is the most common function in C.
- scanf() — scanf() function is used to take input from user. scanf() is also a very common function in C programming.
- fprintf() — fprintf() function is used to print something to a file in C.
- fscanf() — fscanf() is also defined inside stdio.h header file which is used to take input from a file.
- getchar() — getchar() function is used to take character from the keyboard.
- putchar() — putchar() is used to print a character to the screen in C programming.
- getc() — getc() is defined inside this header file and is used to read any character from a file.
- putc() — putc() is used to write a character to the file.
- gets() — gets() can read the line from keyboard which we entered.
- puts() — puts() function is use to write a line to the screen.
- fopen() — fopen() is defined inside the stdio header file and is used to open a file.
- fclose() — This function is also defined under the stdio.h header file.
- fgetc() — fgetc() function is used to read any character from a file.
- fputc() — fputc() function can write a character to the file which is also defined inside this header file.
- fgets() — fgets() is defined inside the stdio.h header file and is used to read a line from the file.
- fputs() — It is defined to this header file which is used to write any string to a file.
- fgetchar() — fgetchar() is used to read any character from the keyboard.
- fputchar() — It can write any character to keyboard.
- fseek() — This function moves the file pointer position to the given location we expect.
- remove() — remove() function can delete a file which is defined under the stdio.h header file.
- rewind() — rewind() function is used to move the position of file pointer at the beginning of file.
- getw() — getw() function can read any integer from the file.
- putw() — putw() is also defined inside this useful header file and is used to write any integer to the file.
Previous page:Â File handling in C
Next page:Â conio.h header file