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heres the program btw. test.txt and txt2.txt are files with keysmashes and copypasta in the working directory. im just running gcc mircat.c and it spits out a a.out that's executable
/* my first C program ever! gonna make a copy of `cat` with maybe extra features idk /* */ #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> char* greeting = "bonjour"; char *fnames[] = {"test.txt","tst2.txt"}; int catfile (char* file){ FILE *stream ; int beg ; int end ; stream = fopen(file, "r") ; // type `FILE *` fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_SET); beg = ftell (stream); // should always be 0 fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_END); end = ftell (stream); //end of file char contents[end] ; for (int i = beg; i <= end ; i++) { fseek(stream, i, SEEK_SET); // go to next position contents[i] = fgetc (stream); // get char at said pos and assign it thusly }; printf ("file %s starts at %ld and ends at %ld\nits contents follow:\n%s\n\n", file, beg, end, contents ); }; int main (){ printf ("%s\n\n", greeting); for (int i = 0; i <= 2; i++) { catfile (fnames[i]); } ; return 0; }