Assignment 8

Objectives

To gain an understanding of File I/O.

Part 1

1. Write a program wordcount.c that takes in a text file, text.txt and prints to screen the number of words in the file. You may consider any non-whitespace characters surrounded by whitespace to be a word. The end of the file will be "########". Submit only your wordcount.c file.
2. Submit your exercise from class. Include your program (e.g. fileio.c) and your input file (e.g. input.txt).

Part 2

In a text file assignment8.txt, answer the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast fprintf() and printf(). Be thorough - include details on input, output, and details of the functions.
2. What, if anything, is the difference between opening a file in “rw” mode and opening it in “wr” mode? What is the difference between opening a file in “w” mode and opening it in “a” mode? Give an example of when you would use each.
3. Why should using the function gets() be avoided?
4. What does fp point to? Explain.

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
    FILE *fp;
    fp=fopen("trial", "r");
    return 0;
}

Submission Guidelines

Please include your name and a description in a comment at the top of your code files. Please also include your name at the top of your assignment8.txt file.

All files must be submitted via GitHub by 10:10am 8/3.