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   9 <title>Chapter 16: The Standard I/O (stdio) Library</title>
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  15 <H1>Chapter 16: The Standard I/O (stdio) Library</H1>
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  17 <p>In
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  19 chapter 12,
  20 we met several of the functions in C's Standard I/O library
  21 (often called <TT>stdio</TT>,
  22 sometimes pronounced ``studio'',
  23 named after the header file <TT>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</TT>
  24 which declares its routines).
  25 In this chapter,
  26 we'll describe most of the functions and other facilities
  27 available in <TT>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</TT>,
  28 and explain how they're useful.
  29 </p><p>(Note:
  30 this is an uncharacteristically long and complete chapter.
  31 It tries to describe just about <em>all</em> of the Standard I/O library,
  32 including features you aren't likely to be using for a while.
  33 Don't feel you have to understand every word in this
  34 chapter--when
  35 you get to an obscure part,
  36 just skim through it to get an idea of what's available,
  37 and come back and read it again as you have occasion to use the feature.)
  38 </p><p><a href="sx2a.html" rel=subdocument>16.1: Files and Streams</a></p>
  39 <p><a href="sx2b.html" rel=subdocument>16.2: Opening and Closing Files
  40 (<TT>fopen</TT>, <TT>fclose</TT>, etc.)</a></p>
  41 <p><a href="sx2c.html" rel=subdocument>16.3: Character Input and Output
  42 (<TT>getchar</TT>, <TT>putchar</TT>, etc.)</a></p>
  43 <p><a href="sx2d.html" rel=subdocument>16.4: Line Input and Output
  44 (<TT>fgets</TT>, <TT>fputs</TT>, etc.)</a></p>
  45 <p><a href="sx2e.html" rel=subdocument>16.5: Formatted Output
  46 (<TT>printf</TT> and friends)</a></p>
  47 <p><a href="sx2f.html" rel=subdocument>16.6: Formatted Input (<TT>scanf</TT>)</a></p>
  48 <p><a href="sx2g.html" rel=subdocument>16.7: Arbitrary Input and Output
  49 (<TT>fread</TT>, <TT>fwrite</TT>)</a></p>
  50 <p><a href="sx2h.html" rel=subdocument>16.8: <TT>EOF</TT> and Errors</a></p>
  51 <p><a href="sx2i.html" rel=subdocument>16.9: Random Access
  52 (<TT>fseek</TT>, <TT>ftell</TT>, etc.)</a></p>
  53 <p><a href="sx2j.html" rel=subdocument>16.10: File Operations
  54 (<TT>remove</TT>, <TT>rename</TT>, etc.)</a></p>
  55 <p><a href="sx2k.html" rel=subdocument>16.11: Redirection (<TT>freopen</TT>)</a></p>
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