setbuf : setbuf « stdio.h « C Tutorial






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Header filestdio.h
Declarationvoid setbuf(FILE *stream, char *buf);
Functionspecifies the buffer that stream will use or,


  1. Set buf to null to turn off buffering.
  2. The buffer must be BUFSIZ characters long.
  3. BUFSIZ is defined in .
#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
  char buffer[BUFSIZ];
  FILE *fp1, *fp2;

  fp1=fopen ("test.txt","w");
  fp2=fopen ("test2.txt","a");

  setbuf ( fp1 , buffer );
  fputs ("This is sent to a buffered stream",fp1);
  fflush (fp1);

  setbuf ( fp2 , NULL );
   fputs ("This is sent to an unbuffered stream",fp2);

  fclose (fp1);
  fclose (fp2);

  return 0;

}








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